postr/StutterMarch 29, 2023

Mom saying that I didn’t stay in the office job because of my stutter.

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Mom saying that I didn’t stay in the office job because of my stutter. I had started a job in the end of January which was a call center job as a service coordinator for an early intervention agency. and before that for a couple of months I had applied on indeed for multiple jobs and that was the one job that had contacted me back. So I had took it because I was desperate for a job and that job was helping kids get services they need so I thought that’s cool I’m helping out the community. It’s a call center job so I had to talk on the phone to parents, doctors, professionals, and different organizations to get the services these kids need. I did stutter on the phone every time I was on it, especially with parents. It was this one time I was talking with a parent and I had a lot of anxiety built up that I couldn’t get one single word out and she had to finish my words, it was super embarrassing but I kept talking to her. I’m doing. My job. There was times I had stuttered at colleagues a lot because of anxiety that’s was built up. I only stayed at the job for a month But my mom saying that she suggest that I should do an office job because that’s where I “belong” and to help practice my speech as I’m the phone all day. and that if I didn’t have a stutter I would have stayed din the job. And that I quit because I was surrounded by more fluent colleagues and that I’m jealous of them. But my whole point is any job I’m going to do I’m going to stutter. Might as well do I job I want to do. especially a job I want to do and it might calm my anxiety so I won’t stutter as much

Themes

School & WorkAnticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience

Subthemes

Employment & CareerAvoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentAnxiety & Social JudgmentFrustration & Anger

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