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I truly believe that YOU yourself, and how you view your stutter/ your relationship with it, limits and sets boundaries on what you think you can do in life or specifically in a career. Many people on here m believe that “because this Reddit users experience as a stutterer in a job interview went horrible, it must be the same for all stutterers” If we’re following that logic, how in the world did Joe Biden for example make it up the ranks to an eventual American President? How did any famous stutterer ever accomplish anything at all? Of course... there might be some things some of us physically cannot do, say, a sever stutterer giving a perfectly fluent speech. But what kind of goal is that? If you make goals like that you are setting yourself up for failure. I’m going to be brutally honest here, many of you on here set your goals too low and your excuse for not doing something (and that something is almost always uncomfortable) is, “my stutter holds me back from doing said thing,” while that can be a very valid reason sometimes, it should not be permanent, in doing this you are putting yourself at an even greater disadvantage. My final words to you beautiful people, your stutter DOES NOT DEFINE YOU, you are not a stutter, you are a person who feels, thinks, breathes, and desires more just like every other human on earth. But that last part - desires more, is so profound. Think of overcoming your stutter as fighting against the current in a river. You swim backwards, you go backwards. You sit still, you go backwards. But if you push, and I mean really push, and this involves true effort and does not come easy, you move forward. I overcame my stutter in 10 weeks.