dis/fluent This is dis/fluent, a column by Sophia Stewart on stuttering, self-understanding, and disability in private and public spheres.

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Confessions of a Covert Stutterer

I’d become so successfully covert that the idea that I stuttered sounded more like an unfounded opinion than an incontestable truth.

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Sophia Stewart
Apr 15, 2021
Columns | Dis/Fluent
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My Stutter Scared Me—Until I Found My Community

After each meeting I felt lighter, looser, having spent two hours listening only to disfluent speech—to voices that sounded like mine.

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Sophia Stewart
Mar 01, 2021
Columns | Dis/Fluent