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Stuttering in meetings I have an engineering internship at a big company and I have to be in meetings all the time. I’m fully remote so we have virtual meetings. Nobody turns on their camera and the combination of talking to an empty screen + meeting a new person makes my stutter worse. Sometimes I’ll start a sentence but it takes a second to get it out and I’ll accidentally interrupt someone bc the conversation has already moved on. It’s so humiliating and frustrating to not be able to communicate fluently and it gets in my way of doing my job. Honestly I’m thinking about not finishing my engineering degree (even though I’m a senior) bc my first internship was in a factory and I couldn’t speak when all the noise was going on and now it’s quiet but I still can’t speak clear enough. One manager told me that my speech impediment is a safety concern bc I need to be able to communicate clearly on the floor. Sometimes I tell people in meetings that I have a stutter and to bear with me and they all say it’s fine and I’m doing good but I feel like they’re just being polite. At what point should I change majors bc of my speech impediment? I’ve had a stutter my whole life and sometimes it’s almost not there and sometimes it’s severe. Do yall have any experiences like this?