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Congratulations!! Is there any way you can make a preemptive strike via email? Or via your boss? Can you introduce yourself and slip in a by the way, I have a stutter. This means that ... (however you want to define it and how you’d like people to respond to you). Like maybe “this means it’s hard for me to say certain sounds and letters. Sometimes this includes my own name. I obviously know my name but it can be awkward first meeting people because sometimes the sound doesn’t come out.” Then wear a name tag. I’m not a PWS, my kid is young so this is pure conjecture on my part. I have asked others to be my spokesperson in the past when I just couldn’t deal. I had a lateish miscarriage so it was public that I had been pregnant. Then suddenly I wasn’t and I still had to go through normal life. I asked the best gossipers to spread the word far and wide so I didn’t have to deal with people congratulating me only for me to burst into tears in a professional setting. They were effective. Everyone knew in a nanosecond and people were kind and supportive. They let me pretend everything was fine and I got through it. Then something more interesting happened and the gossip mill moved on to the next episode.