postr/StutterApril 19, 2018

Do you get pissed off when you see how "stammering" is portrayed in movies and TV?

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Do you get pissed off when you see how "stammering" is portrayed in movies and TV? I've literally never seen anyone in real life so nervous or lovestruck that they mentally collapse into an incoherent mess despite not being a natural stutterer. And yet that's how "stuttering" always happens in movies and tv shows. So annoying, and really sabotages and cheapens the impact a stutter can have on people and its potential to ruin lives, by portraying it as nothing more than a dumb gag. It's no wonder most people just don't "get it". It was really refreshing though to see an actual character with a stutter on IT, and the main character to boot, and not played off for laughs. No one even comments on it, well except for one of the kids, but he was "the asshole" anyway. IT was good. Be more like IT.

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Identity & Disability

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Stigma & BullyingPublic Awareness / Media