commentr/StutterSeptember 8, 2025

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I totally understand how it feels to not have family that accepts your stutter and is insistent on “trying to fix it”. That being said, as an adult now I wished that my parents/siblings had played a more active role and urged me commit a little more in my times with 6-7 total speech therapists as a kid. A lot of the times I was sent to one with the hopes that they would “fix me”, but I felt so stressed out/ashamed for even needing speech therapy that anything I learned would go out the window as soon as I was back in the real world and out of the clinical office setting. When I said I didn’t want to do it anymore, they allowed me to stop (which I’m grateful for, since they let my stubborn self dictate what I wanted to do). If she won’t let you quit, try asking her and/or your immediate family members to consider working with you in sessions. For me personally, I feel like speech therapy would have worked a little more if I didn’t feel so much shame at home and felt safe enough to practice the tools I learned until they became second nature. Someone else mentioned here that stress is a huge thing that affects how severe your disfluency will be in the moment, so learning to practice the tools with them in a clinic may possibly have an impact on the results you’re seeing. Hope all goes well OP 🫶

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Therapy & ProfessionalParent & Caregiver

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Therapy ExperiencesParent Emotions & GuiltHome Support