commentr/StutterJune 22, 2025

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Thanks for sharing your interview experience. I totally agree with you. You should definitely disclose your speech impairment in an interview. And it does several things: 1. It takes a bit of the pressure off to be fluent since you've mentioned it to the interviewer. Which decreases your anxiety about stuttering. 2. It's in a way, a shit test. If the interviewer treats you badly due to your stutter or doesn't believe you when you tell them about it, chances are that workplace / team isnt a good fit. 3. It increases your confidence in disclosing your stutter. One successful disclosure builds on another, reduces the shame you might feel about. One things I'll say though is to be careful about the way you disclose. Telling people you have a stutter doesn't mean they'll understand or get what you mean. ie that you have a speech impediment or impairment. The term stuttering can mean different things to a lot of people, since it's used colloquially in society. Often times people who don't have a speech disorder will say that they stutter sometimes because they get nervous or have random speech hiccups, which isn't remotely close to an actually speech block.

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Social & RelationshipsEmotional ExperienceAnticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy

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Disclosure & Telling OthersAnxiety & Social JudgmentHiding & ConcealmentSelf-Advocacy & Boundaries