Here is what I recently read in a document need for damage control resulting from strong debates between various teams (fluency shapists, stuttering modifiers, and "stutter pride" proponents).
Until recently, we had two approaches: fluency shaping (learn how to speak in a new and more fluent way) and stuttering modification (learn how to modify your stuttering for the better).
Now, we have in analogy to Gay Pride, Stutter Pride. You say: it's OK that I stutter, actually it is not only OK, it's great because it makes me special and we should tell the world that we are proud to be stutterers.
The approach is clear: define-away the problem. Just declare that there is no problem, or at the very least that this difference to the norm is no issue at all and it's society and the affected person brainwashed by society to set those norms. And in a second step, unleash political correctness on your enemies, because everyone who declares that fluent speech is the norm and that they do not like to listen to people who stutter, are stutter-phobes (in analogy to homophobes) is an enemy
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Someone's brain can be totally messed up. We stutterers should be happy that only our speech is messed up. We don't need to mess up our brain.
From the beginning, stuttering self-help movements have borrowed a lot from LGBT and other progressive groups. However, there is one big difference,that stutterers don't have a voice that could touch other souls (just a general statement in case someone nitpicks it and starts to give out names of some stuttering actor/actress or USA vice president).
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