Hmm, imagine you walked into an interview missing fingers because of a childhood accident with fireworks, and the interviewer said "You do realize you have to type, right?" and you explained you can still exceed 60 words per minute despite the disability. It still sounds condescending, but at least it establishes your qualification and that it's important towards whether you'll be a good fit for the job. I'm still working on that meeting-potential-romantic-partners thing myself. I tried online dating a few months ago and it's so inefficient that I'm nearly convinced I'd be better of taking long walks and attempting to talk to strangers - or waiting for them to talk to me first. It seemed a lot more trivial in college with numerous classmates in the same age range. In general it's good to have a backup sentence that you're confident you can say to substitute for patience. "I'm a person who stutters, so this may take a few extra seconds." Yes, I have a job, and there was an extremely long application process. It was all very technical, and I got through it because I was passionately the best damn candidate for the position regardless of how I spoke. I did block and get tripped up on one question towards the end, but I sent an email afterwards to the HR recruiter to forward with a better answer in a different context. It was a great excuse to send the otherwise empty follow-up "thank-you" email. You can still be good at communicating despite being bad at speaking. In most jobs you'll need to be, so demonstrating that during the application process is not a shortcoming.