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Yeah not meant like that :P I actually like your attitude. Cant think of any official "advantage" this shit has given me. Maybe that i kept more of my friends with me moving from 7. to 8. grade....

Very well thought out response. How do we raise awareness? The stuttering community had made significant progress the past few years with, "The King's Speech", and work of the National Stuttering As...

Agree with this. Actually, I think disfluent speech is in and of itself not the biggest issue. The issue is that there is a societal assumption that disfluent speech = lack of confidence, reduced inte...

The ADA definitions I feel are tricky for stuttering. Employers are not permitted to discriminate against persons with disabilities if the person is able to perform the job with reasonable accommodati...

I don't think we need accommodations (what type of accommodations would help?) but more comprehension from non-stuttering people would help a lot. I have a lot of issues reading aloud from a book whil...

Had a national stuttering association meeting last night where we spent two hours discussing this topic. (I am chapter leader so I brought it up HA) We came to the same consensus pretty much. It is ...

I dont know if it really gets us anything. Im pretty sure Ive been turned down a couple times for jobs because of my stutter. Thats illegal to not hire someone because of a stutter, but how in the hel...

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Legally stuttering is a disability. However, it is a case by case basis a lot of the times due to stuttering effects people differently. Society has yet to accept it as a disability. For physical d...

At least for me it certainly makes me less likely to actively participate in a discussion for fear of embarrassing myself. Sometimes I don't say anything because what I want to say has words I know I'...

Can you expand on this? What were some major viewpoints for example? ...

I am serious. What accommodations has society given us? For physical disabilities we have ramps, bathroom stalls, etc. Legally yes stuttering is a disability In society it is not seen that way. ...

I like your attitude ...

I agree...however not a fan of apologizing for my speech impediment...

I refuse to allow it to be one and would never bring it up in a professional setting unless I stuttered so badly that the people around me thought something was wrong. In this case I would simply smil...

But what can that get you?...

Please elaborate...

I consider it a disability, but that doesn't really have many implications....

Technically, yes. Stuttering is considered a disability by the ADA. ...

Possibly, talk to someone at the university who handles disabilities...