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Declaration of the Right to Stutter — 3 Comments

  1. Thank you for making a very nice declaration. Stuttering is one of the diversities of speech. The listener’s understanding of stuttering will help the confidence of the person who stutters.

  2. Greetings. Very very interesting this statement.
    I hope I have grasped the meaning and have not omitted any.

    I agree that, just as efforts are made by associations to offer help to “stop stammering” (and this is not the place to talk about how genuine they are or not) we should also invest in making people understand who PWS really are, behond the stuttering itself , making a stutterer better known and helping PWS to integrate better and “normalize” diversity, making it a part of the whole. I hope I understand, and I agree. I completely agree.
    But I don’t really agree on one thing. In this document you refer to the fact that not everyone wants to “fixed” but just to be like that and be accepted by people, don’t be people have to be “correct” but just accepted. If you speak on behalf of a “community” you must also understand, however, that in a community there are people who accept their status as a stutterer in a perhaps different way, people who are proud of who they are but not fully happy with their difficulty. Should we therefore blame them for looking for a “strategy” to be happier or to reduce the “weight” anyway? if you don’t like “happy” and “sad” words. These people are also part of the community and their point of view must also be accepted. I hope I have put my concept through. I hope I have interpreted this post correctly. And thank you for the work you all are doing until our voice is heard.

  3. I was moved by this declaration and I respect it. It reminded me of the issues deaf people deal with in society. People are constantly pushing them to verbalize or get a hearing aid and their culture or way of communicating isn’t fully respected. PWS are experiencing a similar reality. How they communicate is seen “unfortunate” and like it needs to be “fixed”. So this declaration opened my mind and I now realize that some PWS are happy just the way they are.

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