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I’ve had a stutter since I was 5. Some of my earliest memories is the entire class laughing me in school while I stuttered and couldn’t say my own name. Experiences like this led me to be mute and never talk in school. This completely stunted my social skills and made me an asocial freak who couldn’t even look anybody in the eye. In high school I had a speech therapist who basically called me a lost cause and told me to go fuck myself. When I was 18 I joined the marines, because my dad told me “it would make me a man” and other masculinity bullshit. This is where the bullying got really bad. My life turned into complete shit. The drill sergeants ridiculed me endlessly and I was the black sheep in my platoon. Everything that went wrong in my life has been a chain reaction due to my stutter.
