You can't be mean or authoritative when you are a stutterer
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You can't be mean or authoritative when you are a stutterer I think I lost 2 things due to my stutter: * Being "mean" - I don't endorse mean / arrogant people, but I feel like I don't have the freedom to make snide remarks or be able to give well timed backhanded compliments like a few of my well-socialized "friends". This frustrates me to no end because I feel like if I even \*try\* to do this, not only will people not listen to me (well they don't either way) but ostracize me. When "normal" people behave like this, its considered the most normal thing in the world. * Being "authoritative" - I study most of the time due to being unable to make friends and function in society, it takes my mind off loathing myself and hating society. So this one time, I was working with a couple of my classmates on a group project (we had to make a software product for a course in Uni), we had a disagreement regarding a few aspects of the software. I knew why the features proposed by the others were not feasible but I couldn't be authoritative / convincing in my answers and this lead to us getting an F because the others realized the issues too late into the implementation phase. Well, this is my first post here, and I just went on a rant :) \*\*TL;DR\*\* We depend on other people being considerate towards us when we stutter and we can't afford to be mean or authoritative.