commentr/StutterAugust 15, 2017

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Couple of issues with your comment: First, age has nothing to do with it really. It's about the willingness, and availability to access health services. Someone could tackle this at ten years old or fifty. Second, you really shouldn't associate mental illness or mental health with one's maturity level. That's belittling and condescending to those individuals that struggle. It's a far more complex problem than that. Third, your comment generally comes off as callous and arrogant. Good for you that you've gotten help but not everyone has. Do those people who struggle not deserve a voice within the arts as well? Lastly, you don't know that he's not already in therapy. Just because they don't show it doesn't mean he hasn't sought help of some kind. The point of the film is to show what life is like for *some* people that stutter. A lot of his behaviors and anxieties are common. Most importantly, it portrays the bizarre and difficult to understand disability of not being able to communicate verbally. The phone call was spot on and painful to watch as someone that's been in that situation. If that film gave even a shred of insight and awareness of this problem to someone then it served its purpose. If this was a short film about a guy in speech therapy that would be really boring.

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Identity & DisabilityEmotional ExperienceCommunity & Support

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Medicalization / NeurodiversityAnxiety & Social JudgmentPersonal Stories