postr/StutterFebruary 5, 2026

Is it really all in my head?

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Is it really all in my head? If stuttering is all just in my head then I must be a big loser. So I'm a 22 years old loser than can't overcome her own stuttering huh? That's so depressing. For context I talked to someone 20 years old older than me about my stuttering and he started bringing up about success story about people he used to know that overcome their stutter and I felt pretty shit. I must be a real fucking failure that I can't overcome this shit when I was a child. I never actually care about my stuttering now, I don't even obsess over trying to "get it fixed", and yet I still stutter. Am I just lying to myself? Maybe deep down I do care, then I must be a real fucking loser then. I even stutter to my friends, to my mom, to my sisters, during my salah when I'm reading the quran and you tell me, it's all just in my head, that if I am calm then I won't stutter? Why would I be nervous when I'm praying? That doesn't even making any sense.

Themes

Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability

Subthemes

Shame & EmbarrassmentAnxiety & Social JudgmentIdentity & Self-Perception

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perceived_judgment