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commentr/StutterJan 7, 2020
3 points

Hi! To be honest it doesn't get a lot easier as life go by. I'm on my 5th year of university with a lot of oral presentations, i still feel as anxious as when i was 12 years old. With that said wh...

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commentr/StutterJan 6, 2020
2 points

I know this was posted a while ago but hey whatever lol. I’ve struggled with this so damn much and I go to a very small town high school with a bunch of assholes who make fun of everyone, so before ha...

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commentr/StutterJan 5, 2020
2 points

Have you experienced any brain trauma/concussions within the last few months? I wasn't born stuttering either - I suffered bad whiplash in a car accident when I was 7 yrs old and began stuttering a ...

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commentr/StutterJan 5, 2020
5 points

I completely understand where you are coming from, but there are times where you can't just text: phonecalls from doctors, scheduling appointments, phone interviews, work calls, etc. There's so many b...

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commentr/StutterJan 5, 2020
3 points

With respect...no. I have had this response before...and...no. I will not face a fear that I have had since I have had a working memory. I am well beyond young adulthood, and I have faced this fear th...

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commentr/StutterJan 5, 2020
7 points

There's a million things we could say but am sure you feel like you've heard them all before. We know that feeling too. I'm 37 and have navigated through life with a stutter which has always been the...

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commentr/StutterJan 5, 2020
1 points

Thanks in a way this did help, I really appreciate the part about reminding me to tell myself that I'm just as important as anyone else. Lately I've been feeling pretty out of it in general and needed...

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commentr/StutterJan 4, 2020
1 points

Friend of mine in school growing up had a stutter too - our conversations with each other where always the most fluent chats of the day - He knew I struggled with it more than he did, so he'd say - "D...

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commentr/StutterJan 3, 2020
2 points

Sorry also to add to that I was quite a bad stammerer and i just fell into driving and found that i could get on by hardly speaking to anyone But on the flip side is that since I've had thera...

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commentr/StutterJan 3, 2020
1 points

Thats a very important point. I guess peoples wish to help overpower what you actually want, which is to be treated decently and equally. The thing is, Im wondering if the film is kinda counter produc...

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commentr/StutterDec 29, 2019
1 points

I defer to professionals (as is evident from what I've been saying, if you had paid attention, but that doesn't seem to be something you desire). It's the only sane route when it comes to knowledge. ...

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commentr/StutterDec 29, 2019
0 points

Your delusions of grandeur are astounding. You are a layman pontificating about something you admit science doesn't know a whole lot about yet here you are staking claim to being some kind of authorit...

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commentr/StutterDec 29, 2019
1 points

You're being completely unreasonable, but I can see that it's entertaining to you, especially the namecalling. You should act more mature if you want to claim to be mature. Nevertheless, for the sake ...

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commentr/StutterDec 29, 2019
1 points

You mean you did a ton of googling or you actually did a research? Did you google vitamin B1 overdose?...

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commentr/StutterDec 29, 2019
1 points

Yeah, it sure is a struggle. So why should we be inclusive of someone wanting to deny us options (for bad reasons)? That's what your effect would be. Can't respect that in the slightest....

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commentr/StutterDec 29, 2019
1 points

See? I called it already, up above. You are not satisfied with me telling the truth. You instead want it to be the way you suspect it is. That's *your* problem, and I can't help you with that. - I o...

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commentr/StutterDec 28, 2019
1 points

When I was having a bad day stuttering , sometimes I would just introduce myself and btw I do have a stutter. It relieves a lot of the emotional pressure . When I correspond with people by email a...

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commentr/StutterDec 28, 2019
1 points

These comments below are good. Be your own advocate now and in the future. I took a wicked stutter through undergrad before getting better. When you are 20, 25, 30, and so on you will look back on ...

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commentr/StutterDec 28, 2019
1 points

Everyone puts on a front to some degree. The super confident articulate people are trying really hard to seem that way. Every one has things eating at them to some degree they just aren't as obvious a...

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commentr/StutterDec 28, 2019
2 points

1. The moment when I stutter or when I show visible effort to speak in front of someone is just embarrassing makes me feel helpless and ashamed of who I am 2.No one whom I don't know but I feel that...

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