commentr/StutterOctober 31, 2025

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Just got a message from someone trying to push me towards Lee Lovett's "Stop Stuttering" program. I'm all for neuroplasticity and neuroscience but looking through the videos, the people who were "cured" sound like robots. I'd rather stutter than only talking in short sentences and over or under enunciate words. One of their reasoning was that "95% of stutterers" don't stutter when reading out loud alone, which would lean even more into my reasoning that true acceptance could help a lot -- even though that would be side effect, not striving for that to happen. (I don't find that to be the case with me -- even if I'm talking to AI for example, my disfluency is around the same rate. Maybe a tiny bit less, but it often starts responding when I'm not finished.)

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Coping & AdvocacyIdentity & DisabilityTherapy & Professional

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Fluency TechniquesAcceptance & PrideCure Claims / Alt-Treats