The worst thing about stuttering is that in a nation of “sensitivity” and “inclusivity”, this is the only handicap that people can use to discriminate against you and even make fun of you and everyone laughs.
I’m not sure I agree with you on that, but let’s agree on this - anyone who makes fun of stutterers deserves a serious beat down. Stutterers deserve our sympathy, not ridicule.
My daughter didnt talk until she was 5 because of a brain injury. When she did talk it still took her a long time to learn how to say things.
At 20, she still gets stumped with longer words.
We know real discrimination. The public schools were the worst! They treated her like she was mentally retarded. They wanted to dumb down her education, and didnt want to privide her with enough speech therapy.
We switched her to a private school with a multi-sensory reading program for dyslexia and then put her in private speech therapy. She has a 4.0 after 3 semesters of college. I don’t think she’s mentally retarted!
I’m very thankful that most people text. My daughter still has a hard time speaking on the phone. I do get worried about her using 911 because her speech is worse when she’s stressed, and I think it would be bad in an emergency situation.
another one is color blindness. people, for some reason, think it’s funny you can’t see colors as they do.