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My stutter is driving me insane. Having normal conversations with people that made 100000 times harder and more awkward. It's embarrassing as hell and I'm sick of it.

Conversations with most people I have daily are difficult because it's hard to keep people listening for that long and it's very awkward to talk to someone the first time as they expect me to have a stutter. It's so isolating. Ever since I was a kid everyone just to make fun of me for it. I wish I could talk like everyone else.

I've lost so many opportunities to my stutter just think about it. I'll never a telemarketer, (not really a lost) I'll never be a voice actor, and how many other jobs require you to speak to others?

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[-] Balthazar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

You might find some encouragement from the story of King George VI, who spoke with a stutter. If you haven't seen the movie The King's Speech, I highly recommend it.

Winston Churchill also had a speech impediment, and yet is remembered for his speeches to parliament.

I recognize that these were people of privilege and you probably aren't, so that makes things even more difficult. But I do believe that everyone can be useful and a blessing to those around them, even while dealing with a stutter.

[-] FrenchToast_OverLord@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

James Earl Jones had a stutter during his childhood, and look where he ended up in his life. One of the things I commonly see is that talking and singing use different parts of the brain, so while you may have trouble with a stutter while talking, you may not while singing. That may be something worth looking into.

[-] Fermion@feddit.nl 0 points 2 months ago

Does speaking a new language bypass a stutter?

[-] Soku@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

No, I can stutter in several languages

[-] walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 months ago

I think speech therapy has strategies for dealing with stuttering.

[-] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I know, I would like to go one day.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I can empathize.

Had a friend back in school that stuttered. It was stressful as hell just watching him deal with it, so I can imagine how much stress it would feel like, even if he hadn't expressed much the same things you have.

He ended up finding some stress relief via singing, and only hanging around people that didn't put pressure on him.

Cool dude; haven't seen him in years though. He left the state for college (wrestling scholarship), and doesn't come back except to visit family, so we rarely have time to catch up.

He ended up doing technical writing, like for instructions and textbooks and the like. Freelance now, or was.

[-] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I've noticed for some people it's goes away with age.

[-] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

My aunt had a stutter (and my grandfather too, it's hereditary?) anyway she did speech therapy for years and is now a teacher.

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