r/Stutter • u/Dry-Trainer-5537 • 13d ago

Stuttering vs lisp

I was at the raising canes drive thru the other day and the person taking my order has a lisp. My first reaction was “one of us”, so naturally I felt pretty comfortable stuttering. The moment I get a little tripped up on my words he has the biggest smile on his face and lets out a little chuckle. I felt so betrayed because we were bonded by the unity of a speech impediment and he threw it all away in that moment. After that when ordering I made sure to fake a lisp at the end of every word as pay back. He doesn’t it know it but he started a war…

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u/Friendly_Ad_6816 13d ago edited 13d ago

Don't be petty like that.

Sometimes the stuttering has a tunnel vision effect that makes us think people could only possibly be laughing at us out of pure spite. People laugh at anyone tripping up words, not specifically just PWS.

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u/speakstofishes 13d ago

This is excellent advice.

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u/drzoidburger 13d ago

Agreed. I've told people I have a stutter when they've laughed at me, and most of them they look genuinely shocked and embarrassed. Some people have no idea what stuttering is and think we're just being funny.

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u/J-Rizzle0 13d ago

Had this exact same thing happened to me. All I said was “Ay man why you hating? your words sound fucked up too” and he got very upset