Karisha

uh what now

Rule #1 stick to the fucking bit

Rule #2 bite on my fucking stick

Rule #3 nothing wrong with me

ahahah damn son

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there are literally worse things than being in a saw trap like for instance openly expressing that you have wants and needs and are a real person

huh also like being a human is just so much

God: Teenagers, as part of their growing independence and ability to take care of themselves, will tend to be night owls, allowing parents to care for younger children in the morning.

Humans: So you're saying that teenagers are lazy and we need to beat them to make them responsible adults.

God: No, this is a good thing! Now you have someone to watch over your tribes and homes while the rest of you sleep!

Modern society: If you can't operate during the day like everyone else, you're useless to us.

People in different life stages will tend to have different circadian rhythms

This will mean that in small communities living close together, peer cohorts will have a level of privacy and separation from the group as a whole, a time to themselves as it were

Modern parents: not on my watch! And not when I’m asleep, either!

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i feel like starting shit

applesauce is a smoothie

You see this when you enter Maine

someone in a fanfic: s-stutters in embarrassment

me, closing the tab: sorry I must go

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!

^^^

I myself repeat letters when I’m stressed, so my characters do too, but I didn’t know before about the different causes for stuttering. I will refer to this in future. Thank you.

Yup! Can I add: if it’s a stuttering disorder, it changes depending on who they’re talking to and how they’re feeling (eg., being excited and talking to a large crowd makes it worse). You can see:

And you can see it anywhere in a sentence (start/middle/end of a sentence), depending on the person. Might also have behaviours that go with the stutter - avoiding eye contact, clenching hands, twitches, etc.

sometimes as a short person seeing a tall person I'm taken by the urge to say "wow you're so tall" and every time I think "they're probably sick of hearing that" so I say out loud "kind of short, aren't you" and they inevitably say "what" and the only explanation I can give is "thought you might not get that much" and I could just say nothing, but I don't, and I believe that's the primary symptom of whatever's wrong with me

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dark science beyond belief

why do they gotta make shit like this ugh

i think "take a hike" is like the funniest response to someone. like dude just get outta here. and go experience the wonder of nature for a bit

Spider do engineering, bats do calculus, bees do civil planning, and humans get tears all over their STEM textbooks

dude that’s so true and hurtful lmao

this is real

yeah hell yeah

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