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How vlogging is empowering a new generation of stutterers

by notoriousarun on 7/11/21, 11:56 AM with 17 comments

• by papandada on 7/12/21, 1:39 PM

  So today in my 40s I learned that these pauses I sometimes make mid-speech that cause listeners to "interrupt" (they think I finished my sentence and are asking for what they missed) is potentially a sign of a speech disfluency all my life...down a rabbit hole I go.

• by NetOpWibby on 7/13/21, 4:27 PM

  I used to have a major stutter when my family moved states while I was in 5th grade. I was in New England with a Southern accent and teased because I also liked reading. I pretty much shut up after an especially embarrassing stutter on the word "collapse" during my turn to read aloud. Even the teacher laughed.

  Punching my bully in the head months later gave me "cred" and my stutter lessened. In my brief stint in college, I decided to take a public speaking course because I had aspirations to be a rapper. What kind of musician performs with their back to their audience? (Sia, apparently)

  All this to say, I've learned to live with my stutter. I have to pause and think about what I want to say sometimes but the way I manage it has been so fluid that I almost don't notice it. Most people I meet have no idea.

  That said, I feel for everyone who has yet ANOTHER thing to think about on top of just being a decent human being traversing through life with other human beings.

• by Animats on 7/12/21, 8:11 AM

  There's no video filter to remove stuttering yet? Get busy, ML people. There's a market waiting.