#disfluency

[mad-pride]

Disfluency flag

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[oftengruntled]

Happy disability pride month! Reminder to anyone who may encounter someone who stutters: the clarity of our communication does not define the quality of what we have to say. We are not stroking out, we are okay, we are not overwhelmed by default, and you have simply lost your ability to be patient for more than 10 seconds. I promise, we are indeed worth listening to, we know when you think less of us for stuttering, we know when you stop listening to us because of our stutter, and making us dislike our stutter does not make the stutter go away. I know from experience that brute forcing fluency and trying to hide it just makes it worse. The solution to stuttering is not in the hands of the person who stutters, but the audience who thinks less of them for it. So please, don't give us advice on how to stutter less, give yourself advice on how to fucking listen when you're being talked to.

[disfluency-culture-is]

is disorganize speech due to mental illness/neurodivergence count disfluency? if so, culture is when having harder time with words, is translates to text, so even if not stutter because you are not talk out loud, still have trouble to make people understand you

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Absolutely! Being dis fluent means having more issues with your speech than the general population does, if that makes any sense.

[dysfluentsuggestion]

i dont know what it's called but i'm selectively mute and i twist up and mangle words and say them in the wrong order and do this weird thing where words that i Can pronounce always come out completely unintelligible but when i'm reading something or i've rehearsed it a lot of times i'm very wellspoken, do i count? i know this is probably annoying sorry

yes, you do ! that’s pretty common among dysfluent people (being fluent when something is rehearsed) so of course you count !

but we have been told that the term selective mute is outdated. we appreciate diverse opinions, so if you don’t agree and want to use the term for yourself, that’s fine.

[disfluency-culture-is]

Y’all know that “don’t write strong female characters, write strong male characters who happen to be female” mindset?? Yeah it’s amazing and the same goes with being disabled or non fluent. (Without rooting my own horn) I’d like to say I’m one of the better players in the band, and yet some people only refer to me as the “stuttering player”. I’m not the stuttering player, I’m 1st chair and one of the drum majors who happens to have a stutter. There’s a difference. If you don’t have any kind of disability I’m sure it’s difficult to understand, but don’t define those with disabilities as “oh this is my disabled friend” or “how about you go ask the drum major?” “Which one?” “The stuttering one”. It’s degrading.

[disfluency-culture-is]

disfluency culture is repeating a word six different times while your friends who share the same thing teasingly encourage you and you all overdramatically celebrate when you get it right

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[disfluency-culture-is]

disfluency ADHD culture is getting halfway through a sentence and suddenly the mouth parts stop computing the brain signals properly so it just devolves from -quick speech patterns that you can barely pronounce in the first place bc your tongue can't work that fast- into -unintelligable sounds, repeating the same half a word four times, and then completely losing track of the entire sentence and having to start over and retrace your words-

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[disfluency-culture-is]

Ticcing, stammering, and lisp culture is being told that they're not very noticeable or "cute" and feeling like your problems have been reduced to a little "quirk" of yours.

I’m not even gonna try to put this in the tags. Guys, I shouldn’t need to say this, but your disfluencies are perfectly valid and so are you. You an autistic adult with vocal tics? That doesn’t make you ANY less of an adult. You a teen with a stutter? You deserve the ABSOLUTE same love as your friends. Do you have tourette’s? Well guess what, your tics aren’t cute or funny, they’re serious matters that demand respect. Your speech does NOT define who you are. You define who you are, the question is if you want to keep going even with whatever hinderance you have. You are seen, you are valid, and you don’t need to calm down.