Anyone else not give listeners time to react to your stutter by keeping the conversation moving?
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Anyone else not give listeners time to react to your stutter by keeping the conversation moving? I've always been annoyed when I am in a conversation with someone and I stutter and they feel the need to react to it in whatever way they see fit (chuckling, finishing your sentence, giving you a confused look). Then I feel obligated to tell them I stutter-- so on and so forth. I'm sure you have all been here. I don't want people to make a big deal out of it because a lifetime of explaining to people you stutter is honestly just annoying as fuck and boring. Now, when I stutter and I can sense a reaction incoming, I IMMEDIATELY begin another sentence or ask them a question. This moves the conversation along and doesn't give whoever I'm talking to an opportunity to react to my stutter. Basically, you leap frog over your moment of stuttering and dive right back into normal conversation. It might be a little jarring, but honestly, idgaf. I just want to have a conversation with you. If someone really wants to know, feel free to ask me, but I don't want to have to explain myself every goddamn conversation I have. Often people's knee-jerk reaction is to apologize repeatedly, and after awhile this reaction just gets boring. Just treat me like a normal person. Please. Anyone else employ a similar strategy?