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some rants? Just found this subreddit seconds ago. Never thought it actually exist. I'm stuttering since child (now I'm 20). I never met any person who stutter in my country. The community around me also had totally misunderstood what stuttering is. They thought stuttering is a matter of nervous when talking, or stage fright when public speaking. My friends never care about my condition because I'm pretty good at hiding it (but sometimes I do stutter because shit happens). They also thought by saying to me 'relax before talking' or 'think about the words before you talk' can prevent me from stuttering (which is totally wrong). As a covert stutterer, my friends around me also never knew I'm stuttering and annoying when I told them to help me order 'coke' from the server or answering calls from my lecturer (I'm a class representator so I do receive a lot of calls). My daily life also sucks because for example when my friend ask me anything and I have to ignore or say I don't know because I can't literally say it out loud. I'm considering telling my friends this thing to avoid conflict but never have a gut to do so. The good thing about stuttering is that I develop an ability to substitute a hard to pronounce word to an easier one. I also can twist the sentence I want to say resulting the harder word being in the middle of the sentence. But of course that does not work 35% of the times. I'm sorry if my grammar gave you cancer as I'm not born native english speaker.