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Gene discoveries give new hope to people who stutter
- _zh9y 5y agoStuttering is not a disease and does not need a cure.
- msla 5y ago> Stuttering is not a disease and does not need a cure. I stutter. I honestly don't understand how you can come to that conclusion. I do not understand how something that makes it more difficult for me to talk is not a disease and should not be cured. I'm also autistic, and while I can see the arguments that autism opens doors as well as closing them in terms of giving me new ways to think that allistic people don't have, all stuttering does is close doors. I know what I want to say, I just can't get it out without exercising more care than other people.
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoA very close-minded perspective IMO. Human beings are complex systems molded by genetic evolution and environmental pressures, as well as culture and technology. Being "deficient" in one area nearly always confers a benefit in some other. If I were you I'd develop a personality that deals with the particulars of your existence in a positive and constructive way. So you stutter. That means your language and by extension thought is different and unique in a way most people couldn't even comprehend. What can you learn about the universe? What kind of system of thinking and self-expression will you develop that works around your bottlenecks and channels your strengths? > I do not understand how something that makes it more difficult for me to talk is not a disease and should not be cured. Consider, for example, games. A game that makes it more difficult for you to win is not a disease, does not need curing. It is a challenge that ultimately leads to self-improvement. Difficult challenges commonly begin with frustration and dejection; Neither of which will actually help you move forward. Figure out how to move forward, and you will discover your self along the way.
- _skhan_ 5y agoSo... if I have a handicap, I should look at it as an opportunity or challenge? I should just rise-up to the challenge? Yeah, well, if I don't have any options, then I'll make do. I really only see lack of empathy in your response. Stuttering is a handicap, plain and simple. Yes, some of us can live with it. It is debilitating and humiliating and if you do not suffer from it, I can't imagine how you can begin prescribing advice. You can have the universe, I just want to order some coffee (thank god for self-serve POS).
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoCalling anything "plain and simple" is an admission of knowing nothing about the subject. Nothing in the universe is plain and simple. Every single mutation, trait and feature of every single human being who has ever been born can be thought of as a handicap. Classically, even being perfect is considered one. This is only a reflection of one's inability to play the damn game, instead adopting a victim mentality for pity points. When I went abroad and didn't speak a single word of the local language, I still managed to order coffee just fine by pointing my finger at what I wanted, and smiling. There is nothing debilitating nor humiliating about any of it. Grow up and develop a personality.
- msla 5y ago> This is only a reflection of one's inability to play the damn game, instead adopting a victim mentality for pity points. My life isn't a game. Thanks for trying, but you're obviously unsuited to the task of having this discussion.
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoMaybe that's why you're suffering instead of enjoying it.
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- causi 5y agoPeople have a tendency to conflate adjectives with identity, and don't like it when that identity is threatened. Give it a couple of years and I expect to get messages on social media inviting me to join groups for people with persistent COVID anosmia, and a couple of years after that they'll raise hell if someone comes up with a cure for it. Blindness, deafness, paraplegia, nearly type of bodily non-function is now who you are instead of just something about you.
- Lvl999Noob 5y agoTry going on a stage in front of your whole school and be stuck on repeat saying a single syllable for over 5 minutes while your friends try to do something in the background so they aren't just standing and waiting. Stuttering might not be a disease but it definitely needs a cure.
- rdtsc 5y agoInteresting. Both my cousin and I stutter. We share maternal grandparents. While allegedly our stuttering was triggered by being suddenly scared, in early childhood, I had always wondered if there is a genetic component to it as well.
- elektor 5y agoIf you can spare ~$400, Whole Genome Sequencing can offer some insight into whether your condition has some genetic cause.
- technothrasher 5y agoDo you positively know the emotionally traumatic event that caused psychogenic stuttering in you and your cousin? It’s a lot rarer than people used to believe, so I wouldn’t jump to that conclusion without good evidence. Both of you having developmental stuttering with a genetic component would seem more likely.
- rdtsc 5y agoNot positively, no. It's anecdotal. Both him and I must have been around the 3-5 years old. I remember the experience just not if it's 100% what triggered the stuttering. My uncle and aunt are sure it was the trigger for my cousin. I can see it being both a genetic component but it needed a trigger too to start happening.
- jspash 5y agoI remember seeing something on TV a long time ago where they "cured" people who stutter simply by giving them a device that allowed them to hear what they were saying, but there was a tiny delay which was the way it worked. I don't remember the details any more than that.
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