commentr/StutterNovember 12, 2025

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I've never understood how fluency and self acceptance are compatible. We are people who stutter. SLPs tell stutterers that who they are is ok, and in the next breath tell them they should to eliminate or control that part of themselves that is supposed to be ok. It doesn't reconcile. PWS don't hate stuttering, they hate the blocking and tension and struggling etc. Fluency is not the only way to mitigate those things. Most of the time the desire for fluency is what stands in the way because it's what keeps things the way they are. 

Themes

Identity & DisabilityCoping & Advocacy

Subthemes

Acceptance & PrideAuthenticity vs. MaskingFluency Techniques