commentr/StutterJuly 13, 2024

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I’m also the only sibling that stutters and I have a guilt that I make my brothers look bad. In elementary I was extroverted but over the years you can say my stutters was progressive and my brain started going 📉 so I would get the remarks like “why did you freeze” or “why do you talk like that”. I’m glad to have siblings that in a sense know what I’m going to say when I stutter kinda like Moses and his brother funnily enough. I just can’t rely on them all my life, I can’t have a translator all my life but my stutter is so severe I feel like a burden. I wish I wasn’t a sibling who stuttered, I want to be a good and social brother but sadly I can’t be

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Emotional ExperienceSocial & Relationships

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Shame & EmbarrassmentFamily Support & ConflictHelplessness & Agency