Anyone else have unsupportive family about your stutter?
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Anyone else have unsupportive family about your stutter? I've had a day today, took out my mother for a mother's day lunch and she made a mocking comment about someone we know going into a speech pathology career path. On the lines of how stupid of a job it is to help people with a speech impairment. I was really dumbfounded in the moment, as I'm a person with a relatively severe stutter. Been a stutterer all my life and for some reason my family still doesn't get it. I don't know what it is, I think they're just the kind of people who don't like those who are with a disability or disabled I've often been thinking about maybe how different my stutter would be if they were nicer to me about it. I've been mocked my whole life by them. I don't know why they didn't see their child struggling to speak and didn't do anything to help. I'm just feeling really lost and I'm alone all the time. Everything is just so hard, I have no self esteem, I'm struggling to keep a job due to the communication aspect that's required, struggling to make and keep friends. No one's ever been in my corner. As much as I understood from a young age that in my life I would only really have myself to rely on and myself to understand, it doesn't make it suck less. As much as I wish I could be someone to soldier on alone, the older I'm getting the more it's becoming apparent I'm unable to do so.