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postr/StutterFeb 1, 2025
92 points

Stuttering is a disability and I'm tired to pretend otherwise.

Stuttering is a disability and I'm tired to pretend otherwise. Yeah I know that's the 1000th thread about this, but really I hate it how stuttering is not treated seriously by society. It's always moc...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Medicalization / NeurodiversityStigma & BullyingShame & Embarrassment+1 more
commentr/StutterJan 31, 2025
2 points

that song is dope but I didn’t even he was trying to mocking us having a stutter 😂😂...

Community & SupportIdentity & Disability
Humor & Community ToneStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterJan 31, 2025
1 points

Try to remember that everyone has traits they struggle with. Ours just happens to be right out in the open. As you get older, people will mock you less and less. Those who continue to mock you into ...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Stigma & BullyingAcceptance & PrideHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterJan 31, 2025
2 points

Believe me I feel ya bro..that's why I was thinking how can ppl judge us when they have no fuckin idea how hard & painful it is.....

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Anxiety & Social JudgmentStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterJan 30, 2025
15 points

Kids who mock you will not intellectually mature until well after their mid-twenties so while it’s a tough thing to do, try and brush it off. Of course it’s normal to be envious of other people abili...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Stigma & BullyingShame & EmbarrassmentHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterJan 29, 2025
3 points

Last year of middle school. A theater actor was invited to give a presentation on good diction to all 8th graders. Of all people, of course he called ME out to read a poem. I told him I stuttered (the...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & DisabilitySchool & Work
Shame & EmbarrassmentStigma & BullyingSchool & Academic Life
commentr/StutterJan 28, 2025
7 points

I have too many to count, but one I specifically remember was when I had to give a speech in front of the class in the 8th grade and I was stuttering through every single word and I could hear people ...

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & DisabilitySchool & Work
Shame & EmbarrassmentStigma & BullyingSchool & Academic Life
commentr/StutterJan 28, 2025
1 points

Thus us why you teach them, through humour, personality and actually just ignoring your stutter. Educating people is better than just ignoring them and saying they are ignorant for never encountering...

Community & SupportCoping & AdvocacyIdentity & Disability
Advice OfferedSelf-Advocacy & BoundariesStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterJan 28, 2025
4 points

There are different levels of stuttering. Some people have very minor stuttering that they can easily mask over, perhaps it only comes out when they're very stressed. These people probably identify ...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Severity & FluctuationStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterJan 27, 2025
8 points

100%. I hate when people say, "Everyone does it." I'd give anything to be a part of the "everyone get words twisted once in a blue moon and stumbles over a word because they are tired, drunk, or talki...

Identity & Disability
Stigma & Bullying
postr/StutterJan 27, 2025
17 points

Having a Stutter in College

Having a Stutter in College Having a stutter is genuinely so exhausting. I am currently in college and the introducing your self, group activities, class projects, never seems to end. I have reached t...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentPropositionality & Weight+3 more
commentr/StutterJan 27, 2025
2 points

I think it's clearly a lack of education. I don't think it's a lack of empathy, but people just don't understand the difference between conversational disfluency and a pathological speech disability. ...

Identity & Disability
Stigma & Bullying
postr/StutterJan 27, 2025
0 points

Claiming her boyfriend stutterers just to make me happy...........

Claiming her boyfriend stutterers just to make me happy........... This is an awkward situation that others might have experienced. As a stutter person myself, this girl I work with is so nice but obv...

Identity & Disability
Stigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterJan 27, 2025
1 points

Everyone who speaks occasionally stutterers. Unless they have advanced training in dysfluency, how would they know that your version is so significantly worse?? Especially if the stutterer is *cove...

Identity & DisabilityAnticipation & AvoidanceCauses & Variability
Stigma & BullyingHiding & ConcealmentSeverity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterJan 27, 2025
1 points

At this point I must say I've realized it's not as inconspicuous as I thought it was, lol. Yeah, I think I do the same thing — Not to the point anything hurts, but it definitely makes me look a bit st...

Speech & StutteringAnticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Physical TensionFeared Words & NamesStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterJan 27, 2025
6 points

My one friend in high school used to tell me to just not worry about my stutter and then he’d immediately make fun of it later and tell me to “use my words” when I got stuck...

Identity & Disability
Stigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterJan 27, 2025
11 points

Most of the guys I’ve dated have had a little joke about me stuttering, BUT as long as you have confidence you’re good. I felt like it limited me in high school because everyone was ignorant and calle...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional ExperienceSocial & Relationships
Stigma & BullyingHope & MotivationDisclosure & Telling Others
commentr/StutterJan 27, 2025
7 points

It's not just stuttering. I am involved with a community of people with various challenges. Ignorance of others is par for the course....

Identity & Disability
Stigma & Bullying
postr/StutterJan 27, 2025
44 points

The ignorance of stuttering to the general person is actually pathetic

The ignorance of stuttering to the general person is actually pathetic I find it kind of pathetic how ignorant some people are that I’ve met and spoken to before, some being less and some more intelli...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionShame & EmbarrassmentStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterJan 27, 2025
3 points

We are all in this together, thinking you’re a freak over this does nothing but hurt yourself and others with speech impediments. People are gonna respond weirdly or rudely. Sometimes it’s just confus...

Identity & DisabilityEmotional Experience
Acceptance & PrideStigma & BullyingHope & Motivation