trying, trying, trying to write that The Problem With Tina post

[kazaera]

which for some reason is being very, very difficult - seriously, I started trying this two years ago, what's the issue?

I'm searching out Proper Science to help me point out how incredibly, incredibly wrong the idea of faking a stutter because they're shy and don't want to deal with people is (because, I mean, seriously, THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A

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[lyorn]

When I was seven or eight, it was a fad among the girls in my year to adopt a fake (cinematic, kind of) stutter, to express reluctance to talk, or surprise. No reason that I ever knew of, just a fad. Of course I caught it -- I caught the bad Bavarian fad and the fake English fad and the Yoda speech fad some years later, too. As if I was needing more speech issues.

/Someone/ might have misunderstood verbal fads among kids as stuff for a psych paper? Anyway, what those fads *were*, was a tool for kids to express themselves *better*, in the way they *wanted to*. Which is diametrically opposed from a real speech issue, which does hinder communication and that one has to fight one's way through to get anywhere, and which no one choses to have. :-(

Finding Proper Science in a science as soft as psych seems quite a challenge...

[kazaera]

Wow, I've never noticed any of that. That said, my classmates were more sensitive than many (I belong to that 18%, thankfully) and I think they had the sensitivity to realise that uh, mocking speech stuff around me, probably not so cool

[20thlvl_rogue]

*hug*

[calaethis]

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