commentr/StutterJune 9, 2019
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Hello, Thank you for sharing your experiences. I'm at Arizona State currently trying to stay in the Air Force ROTC program but was recently disqualified due to a my stutter. The waiver hasn't come back yet and I wrote a personal statement so we're hoping for the best. I find that when standing at attention is when I stutter most, but other than that it's not that bad and it was labeled as a "mild/minor" stutter in my therapy papers. My staff sargeant said that it seems as though they are disqualifying me by thinking I need therapy to function in life (they don't want to pay for that when/if I go in), when in reality I'm just trying to better myself and my speech. Kind weird I think.
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Emotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
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Anxiety & Social JudgmentIdentity & Self-Perception