Just found your thread and wanted to drop by and give some words of advice :) can absolutely relate. I'm 28F and was terrified getting a job at your age for this very reason. Got rejected for jobs in the past cos of my stutter too and people thinking I'm slow. I got my first real job at 20, and it was at a food factory. Not glamorous, but it appealed to me because of the limited social interactions. Today, I have a job I love as a technical writer. I still have a mild stutter (gets more severe in times of stress). I recommend finding a job that doesn't require too much social interactions, such as kitchen or food prep work, or doing shelf stacking at a local supermarket. Apply for any jobs you feel more or less comfortable doing. If you've got technical skills you can also search online for work doing something like data entry (beware of scams though). Ease yourself into the world of work gradually. This should reduce your stress, which will hopefully help with your stutter also. If there is no luck with work, take a look at volunteering once in a while, even if it's a few hours a month. That also looks good in a resume. The fear that held me back was that, if I didn't speak perfectly at work, everyone would hate me and I would get fired. But I soon realised that work is just....life. No one is expecting you to be a perfect automoton, and most people just act like themselves. Don't worry about not having it together at 17, no-one does When I was your age, I had no money, no confidence and limited friends. Now, I'm married, with a with a great job, a house and a that good stuff. Having a stutter is not the end of the world, you've got this!