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guys my bsf made this group

yesyes how cool of me

*smiles*

hi !! hru

IVE MISSED YOU 😍😍😍

YES SORRY BOYFRIENDS UGH NOT MY FAULT

I AM ABSOLUTELY BLAMIING HIM

LMAO NO BLAME MY BROTHER HE DOESNT LET ME GO ON GR

WAIT OKAY IS
HIS NAME ACTUALLY RIDLEY??/

YES LOL

BECAUSE THERES A VIDEO CHARACTER NAMED THAT AND I WAS CONVINCED HE WAS JUST MAKIGN IT OFF OF IT
hes so funny though lets trade brothers

YESYES THATS WHAT EVERYONE SAYSSSS
yeah he's also really mean but you know brothers ugh

YEAH
true true brothers are the worst but also the best
ive met all your siblings now omg

LOL
yes yes lmao
ALL OF MY FULL SIBLINGS
WHICH IS TECHNICALLY JUST MY SISTER
BUT I HAVE 5 HALF BROTHERS (NOT INCLUDING RIDLEY) AND 5 HALF SISTERS

HUH???
what????

yupyup my dads a man***

dammmmnnn
holidays must be fun

lol
no i don't see them my mom hates my dad 🤞

oh okay 😭

ant when you get on can i be a mod 🥺🥺🙏🏼

bringing this over to chat so we don’t clutter up the intros LMAOO 😭

@pierce yeah hii!!! i dont usually join social groups at all but this one seemed less hectic enough. how have you been? (and you need to tell me more about that book you’re writing because omg?? since when????)

@Cory Doing the lords work 🙏

!!! Mhm!! I have joined a few, but I'm inactive in a lot because they get overwhelming lol-

And I've been writing it since January!! It's a historical fiction based on the myth of Apollo and Hyacinthus!! Thought it would be cool to write about the "Best buds" that have revolutionized history as we know it!! (Hyacinthus was one of the first ever queer people recorded in history!!)

I WANNA KNOW ABOUT THE BOOK TOO

@Mini Haha, thank you!! Yeah I'm about 50 pages in (After CONSTANTLY rewriting things...) And soon I'm going to head to my second draft <3

amen 🙏 gotta have someone do it BWHGAHA

THATS FAIR i’ll stick to roleplay groups

oohhh, how many pages have you done so far? is it a draft or no? because that does sound pretty neat (let me know when it’s published so i can buy it man 😩)

apollo and hycinthaus story is one of my favorites thats so cool pierce

no i am not going to try and spell his name thank you

Cory RIGHHTTT

About 50 pages, and yeah!! But I do post on Ao3.. (🙏) Trust I will finish the first draft this month

AO3 POSTER??? NOW?? SEND LINK????? OMG???

@Kit Literally took me 2 months of constantly writing his name to spell it right (And you were REALLY close!!)

Cory EJLJRGBIJEKJE HOLD UP

https://archiveofourown.org/works/566...

REAL i cant even pronounce it right sometimes 😭

⚞ Pierce ⚟ [He-Him] (Free Palestine) wrote: " @Mini Haha, thank you!! Yeah I'm about 50 pages in (After CONSTANTLY rewriting things...) And soon I'm going to head to my second draft <3"

OMG WELL.DONE
im a published author working on my 2nd book 😭😭😭 dystopian fantasy >>

WHAT MINI????

@Mini AHHH THAT'S SO COOL!! I'm published and won an award for erm an essay I did on Teen Stuttering 👍

(And a short story we do NOT talk about)

this will be my motiviation to countinue with my novel 🫡🫡

@Kit NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH 🗣🗣

NO I KNOW I FORGOT ABOUT IT AGAIN TBIS YEAR 😭😭

what sucks is ive been so busy this month that i havent had time to sit down and write sob

kitcantspell wrote: "WHAT MINI????"

Lol kit i showed you my book on gr 😭😭

⚞ Pierce ⚟ [He-Him] (Free Palestine) wrote: " @Mini AHHH THAT'S SO COOL!! I'm published and won an award for erm an essay I did on Teen Stuttering 👍

(And a short story we do NOT talk about)"

Oh wiw thats such an interesting topic is it in gr??

i have subscribed pierce 🫡

@Mini Not like a book, It's in a magazine but it's under my deadname. Yeahhh, it's SO hard to research because I found like 2 (TWO) articles on it. Now I am doing an entire 8 minute speech about stuttering for Speech and Debate lol- Is your book on GR?

(THIS IS THE ESSAY <33)

When someone stops mid sentence, repeats a phrase or sound, or a glitch in someone’s speech, that is classified as stuttering. Adolescents stutter for multiple reasons. Most people brush it off as social awkwardness, but is it just that? When you look closer, the answer is no. Childhood stuttering can persist from childhood events, a neurological disorder, a traumatic event or sequence of events that will cause an impediment in speech, a genetic cause of stuttering, or even something unrelated and unexplained.
Teen stuttering seems insignificant, but that could not be further from the truth. It can cause severe anxiety, which later on in life can lead to selective mutism. Selective mutism is one of the many forms of mutism that disables the ability to speak. People with selective mutism have developed such an insecurity of speaking, that they simply don’t speak. Low self-esteem and bullying are also the brutal effects of teen stuttering. Leading those effects are depression and even suicidal tendencies. If the teenager has been stuttering since childhood, the bullying may start, and won’t see an end any time soon.
People who stutter often have another condition along with their speech impediment. These include but are not limited to: Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and Cerebral Palsy. These conditions can make communicating and executing daily tasks extremely limiting, and can negatively affect the teenager’s ability to communicate and interact with their peers like a neurotypical and able-bodied teenager.
Contributing to lifting up teenagers with a speech impediment is crucial to their well-being. Being patient is one of the best ways to support someone who stutters. Talking can be hard for anyone, but for people with a speech impediment such as a stutter, it is important to let them take their time. It is important to realize how your speech and phrases can affect others. Terms like “Did I stutter?” can be extremely harmful and damaging to people who do actually stutter. By looking closer to that phrase, it infers that people with a speech impediment can’t be taken seriously, and their voices shouldn’t be heard, which is wrong. Ask the person what makes them feel comfortable. Each person, stutterer or not, has their own needs and preferences. It is strongly advised to ask them what can be done to make them feel more accepted in their daily life.
The treatment for stuttering is unclear at the surface. The only treatment that is clear at the moment is speech therapy. Speech therapy takes a specialized therapist and the stutterer, and helps them through different oral exercises, activities, and work through the session. Speech therapy is most effective at a young age because this timeframe is when the brain is still malleable and developing. Speech therapy only minimizes stuttering though. The impediment will find it easier to prevail in times of high emotion like stress, anxiety, depression, happiness, etc. These can occur when giving a speech, getting test results, going on a roller coaster, etc. Speech therapy can help teenagers gain independence, but that may lead to teenagers feeling broken and defective if the situation is not dealt with accordingly.
To conclude, stuttering in teens is not something that should be taken lightly, and it is not something that needs to be changed or fixed even. It is something society needs to learn to adapt to. When a teenager has a chronic stutter, it should be advised to look into other disabilities or other causes if not looked into already. Teenagers who stutter are often dismissed and thrown to the side because of their speech impediment, and their representation is scarce. Supporting teenagers who stutter is something that has not been talked about much yet. That is why bringing awareness to stuttering is a crucial step to evolving as a society.

Works Cited: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health... , https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-c... , https://say.org/programs/sayspeech/te... , https://www.healthline.com/health/stu...

@Cory THANK YOU MAN, I WILL MAKE SOME NEW CHAPTERS SOON TRUST

oh yeah mini you did i have it on my want to read 🤪

⚞ Pierce ⚟ [He-Him] (Free Palestine) wrote: " @Mini Not like a book, It's in a magazine but it's under my deadname. Yeahhh, it's SO hard to research because I found like 2 (TWO) articles on it. Now I am doing an entire 8 minute speech about ..."

i have a stutter and nobody talks about how dififcult it is sometimes and its usually, if not always, overlooked
but thats amazing

kitcantspell wrote: "⚞ Pierce ⚟ [He-Him] (Free Palestine) wrote: " @Mini Not like a book, It's in a magazine but it's under my deadname. Yeahhh, it's SO hard to research because I found like 2 (TWO) articles on it. Now..."

Thst is so true. One of my best friends has a stutter too

Yeah mine is on gr 😭😭

@Kit & Mini Yeah definitely, a lot is overlooked

@Mini Can you send the link?

Pmed 😊