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Unsolicited Comfort I want to know the stuttering community's thoughts on this situation. A couple of weeks ago, I was talking to a friend and I stuttered. This was not the first time I stuttered around him, in fact we've discussed stuttering before. It's out in the open, it's no big deal. But for some reason this time, mid-stutter, he felt the need to comfort me. It really caught me off-guard. I wasn't really sure how to react so I just stopped and said, "Oh. No need for that. Anyway..." and continued. Finished what I was saying just fine, like always. I have been stuttering for something like 22 years. If somebody thinks that for some reason, in this single isolated incident, I am going to be sad about it, they think far too highly of themselves and far too little of me, to think that I haven't figured out how to deal with this by now. Thoughts? Similar experiences? I am still unreasonably (or perhaps reasonably?) grumpy about this.