Through her podcast, ProudStutter, Maya Chupkov attempts to cut through stigma and share real experiences with stuttering, from people who stutter to therapists, parents of kids who stutter and others.
Maya Chupkov records for her podcast, “Proud Stutter.” Chupkov developed the podcast after years of trying to hide it as part of fostering a community to celebrate verbal differences and amplify perspectives on speech disabilities.
After a successful first season with co-host and San Francisco educator Cynthia Chin, Chupkov is now preparing for a solo Season 2. In between seasons, she plans to meet with listeners who range from people who stutter to therapists, parents of kids who stutter, and others who just want to learn more about the misunderstood experience.
My grandpa had a stutter, and there is research that shows it could be tied to genetics. My family has always been pretty open about it. But my mom really wanted me to work on it and put me in speech therapy, which I didn’t have the best experience with. I was always okay with my stutter, it didn’t really bother me. And I didn’t want to go to therapy. Every time I went, I was trying to hide a part of myself. They were teaching me to become a robot.
From my conversations so far with the stuttering community, there does seem to be this big connection. There have been a few messages I’ve gotten from people saying they are depressed about their stutter. It’s really sad. And that’s why I’m trying to get stuttering out there in the mainstream as much as possible. The more stuttering we listen to and hear in everyday media, the more we as stutterers will feel safer being ourselves.
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