Realistic Stuttering: “Sorry, I uh… I didn’t mean- I didn’t mean to do that…”
When people stutter, they usually reword what they’re saying as they speak, and subconsciously insert “filler words” such as “uh, like, you know,” and etc.
*puts on speech therapist hat*
ACTUALLY! It depends on why they are stuttering.
A Nervous Stutter results in what is called Mazing, or rewording the sentence. That is the classic “I, um… well I… look it’s just that… so we…” that @hellishhues is talking about. When someone is mazing their words you’re seeing a form of Speech Apraxia where the brain is having trouble forming verbal speech. This can be brought on by brain damage, memory loss, anxiety, nerves, and several other things.
The root cause of a nervous stutter is a disconnect between the mouth and the brain.
With this you will also sometimes see the classic “S-s-s-sorry…” especially if the person has been training to speak clearly and is now at a point of fatigue or stress where they are not mentally capable of forming the words.
The other kind of stutter is a Physical Stutter, sometimes referred to as slurring, and another facet of Speech Apraxia. This stutter is caused when the muscles of the mouth, tongue, and throat are physically unable to form certain sounds. This is most often seen in the very young and victims of brain trauma.
Sounds are acquired at different ages, so a 2-year-old will probably not be able to clearly pronounce certain words (which is why toddler sound so off when they’re written with developed dialogue). These mis-pronunciations are sometimes referred to as lisping, but only if the sounds are run together. If the person starts and restarts the sound because they got it wrong, it can also sound like the classic sound stutter.
But it all depends on why the character is stuttering!
Do they have Speech Apraxia, Audio Processing Disorder, muscle dysfunction, or another medical reason to stutter? (1)
Are they stuttering because of anxiety, stress, or fatigue? (2)
Does the stutter stem from intoxication or blood loss? (3)
All of those will sound different!
1 – Will have mazing, repeated sound stutters, and be the classic stutter that annoys OP.
2 – This is where you’ll see the repetition stutter, mazing, rephrasing, and filler words.
3 – This is where you are more likely to see starts and stops and slurring of words.
My mum has apraxia and I just wanted to say that’s one of the most concise and clear ways I’ve seen it explained, thank you!
People are really trying to ““support”“ KMT by saying that Rian Johnson should’ve been the one on the receiving end of the harassment instead of her.
And that’s…a lot lmao, but the big thing that stands out to me is this buck fucking wild idea that internet harassment is some kind of natural disaster, an uncontrollable phenomenon that was always going to happen. That it’s inevitably going to target someone, and the most we can do is try to aim it at someone who “deserves” it.
No, cyberbullying and harassment isn’t an some kind of tornado that we can only try to predict and plan for. It’s a choice.
People made the choice to harass Kelly Marie Tran. They made the choice to leave body-shaming and racial slurs on her social media. They made the choice to prioritize their own disappointment about a fucking Disney movie over the feelings and well-being of a real life person. They made the choice to treat fictional ships as more important than a real person.
They made the choice to hold a female character of color to a higher standard than the white female character. They made the choice to make it socially unacceptable to stan Rose Tico or ship her with her canon love interest. They made the choice to not stick up for her when the negativity came from their own in-group. They made the choice to maintain radio silence as all of this was going on.
Whether on twitter or instagram or tumblr, whether it came from the racist fanboy collective or the angry FR/FP shippers, people made the choice to prioritize their own collection of online social capital over Kelly Marie Tran’s basic dignity and humanity.
This was not an inevitability. This was a choice, made by hundreds if not thousands of people, and it was the wrong one, and now we have people acting like the correct choice was “harass Rian Johnson/Adam Driver/Kathleen Kennedy instead.” It wasn’t. The correct choice was actually “don’t fucking harass people.”
Star Wars is fictional. Even if it matters a whole lot to you. Even if you felt crushed by TLJ. It’s still fictional. It’s a fictional story. Kelly Marie Tran is a real person. She’s more important. I don’t know how many times we have to say “Star Wars isn’t more important than real people” before the message gets through.
can we please bring back “in poor taste” as a concept
Because at some point it got folded in under “problematic,” and now every damn thing that has Unfortunate Implications or deals with sensitive topics indelicately enough to raise hackles or gores somebody’s sacred cow is treated as a grave injustice or a threat to society. Online activism culture has lost the vocabulary to express “this deals with touchy stuff in a way many people might find inappropriate, and you should probably avoid it if insensitivity on this subject gets you angry/upset, but it’s not promoting hateful ideas or demeaning people or affecting anything but my opinion of the creator’s sense of tact.”
I think this really an important post.
We’ve fallen into such a rut of “everything is right or wrong, no inbetween” that stuff that’s merely in poor taste is conflated with things that are actually offensively malicious.
this is so well worded like i been trying to say this for awhile thank you
Damn. This is the thing.
I also kinda dislike that people started saying ‘problematic’ when they could be specific about what someone did wrong. It becomes this vague scary thing that someone ‘said something problematic’ and you don’t know whether they passionately defended nazis or made a clumsy joke about retail workers. And because we don’t know what someone means but we do want to be safe a lot of us just assume to worst and avoid people labelled ‘problematic’. This makes is a very effective tool to bully out people for minor flaws and to reinforce purity culture and disposability culture.
I was going through old stuff and I found a photo of me and my first crush. Anyways here he go tying my shoes cause I would pretend I didn’t know how lol
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