commentr/StutterSeptember 2, 2020

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I’m 37 and I stutter once or twice everyday. I work in a maximum security prison and I have to talk and give directives to the offenders (serial killers, rapists, child molesters, bank robbers, pimps and drug dealers). I don’t care what people say or think about my speech. I still have the oh, shit moments, but I speak slow, use words from my little secret bag of words that I don’t get stuck on, breathe and not give a shit what people think. If I have a block. I make fun of myself to break the tension. Then I continue.

Themes

Coping & AdvocacyAnticipation & Avoidance

Subthemes

Self-Advocacy & BoundariesHiding & ConcealmentAvoidance & Substitution