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Stuttering Community Hey guys, ​ Idk whose gonna see this, maybe ur someone who had to deal with stuttering through out ur whole life of maybe ur someone who has a s/o or friend/family that stutters and know what they go thru or maybe ur just some person who stumbled across this. But I just wanted to share my story about my stutter. Im only 17 and arguably Ive finished the hardest part of my life, high school. Dealing with stuttering while going to school was really hard. I had to go to therapy (even tho i didnt wanna bc i thought that that made me different and a loser) thru a therapist provided by school. This meant that i was pulled out of class once every week to work on things to help control my stutter as stuttering is not a disease and cant be cured. Now, it was already hard to explain why i talked weird, but as a little kid, it was even harder to explain to my friends and classmates why I had to go to therapy for it. Back then my family and myself thought it was something that id sorta get over, like one of those edgy phases teens had. But as i grew up i realized that it didnt go away but it in fact got worse. Now see, just about eveyone stutters when theyre stressed or angry or even happy. Now if u add that to someone who already stutters it gets even worse. I gotta admit that it did kinda help bc my teacher didnt make me do any presentations in front of the class so that was good. But when I was thinking about that, they allowed me not to do the presentations bc they pitied me. And the last thing i wanted was pity. My battle with stuttering was really really weird. I was so so confused on what to do. Now obviously i was bullied but thats really generic so i wont talk about that too much. ​ Now its mid September and im a senior which means I have to do college applications. and the prompts that the colleges give you require you to think for a while and to write about something that youre passionate about or something thats affected you very much. Everybody told me to write about how im in love with the game of basketball or how im involved with my local temple or blah blah, but then i got the idea about stuttering. And i realized that stuttering has helped me learn so much. its helped me grow as a human being. Yeah I didnt really have anyone to talk to about my "problem" bc i didnt feel comfortable talking to my friends, family or even anybody really about it. But now Im asking you, if you stutter and ur going thru something similar or want to talk to someone or even want advice, im here. Stuttering is not something to hate, God made all of us different, yeah some people took all the good things of having photographic memory or being really really tall and we got stuck with stuttering, but in my opinion, If i didnt stutter, I wouldn't be the same person i am today. and again, if you wanna talk or just want me to listen as u open up im here. Ur not alone in this, were all here for u. Also, if u have a story of u or someone you know that stutters, share it below, inspire others.