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I completely understand, I'm a moderate stutterer around my fiancee, a very bad stutterer around everyone else, and can't get a single word out whenever I have to present something, literally. But honestly, I don't think finding a job and other responsibilities are that hard. For example, I'm a computer science major and have had to do a couple of interviews for internships. Whenever I'm applying, I always make sure to check the disability box since often times, that can assist in getting an interview since that company might have a disability quota so it helps in that regard. When it comes to the interview or presenting, always preface to your audience that you have a speech impediment and that if there's any pauses, that's the reason. You won't believe how patient a lot of people are with you after you tell them that vs if you don't tell them anything and just start stuttering while talking. I've honestly have yet to meet anyone who isn't patient after I tell the I have a speech impediment. Literally when presenting, I could only get like 5-10 words out of the paragraphs that I wrote and afterwards, people will come up to me and say I did amazing, I know I didn't but hearing them say it shows their support and it's really encouraging. As I said, the biggest thing is disclosing the fact that you have a speech impediment. Also, don't count anything that happened before college. Kids in elementary, middle, and high school are genuinely some of the worst people known to man. Most of them change and aren't aholes when they get older while some stay the same but once again, that's later in life, don't let those previous years ruin the future outcomes.