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Shit if it is, can I get a scholarship?...

Legally: yes. The ADA legislation is designed to protect all Americans with disabilities including us. Use it to your advantage. Read it, understand it, and use it if you are victim of discrimination....

Nope. Relative to the conditions commonly considered to be disabilities, stuttering is not at all one....

I consider it a disability, even though many people I have talked to who also stutter do not see it as so. To me, it affects my day to day life and has the potential to affect me in my career as wel...

If you see it as a disability and let it limit you, you loose. Kinda how i look at it....

Personally, if I was filling out a form or something that asks if I have any disabilities I wouldn't put stuttering. I have thought of it as being a disability though because it is disabling in some w...

At the American Speech-language hearing Assoc. Convention I attended a great workshop that discussed this. I wanted some more input from you all :-)...

It's a good question. There are two perspectives to take on this: legal and personal. Legal: According to the American's with Disabilities Act (ADA) A disability is ["a physical or mental impairment ...

Is stuttering a disability?

Is stuttering a disability? Just throwing the questions out there. Thoughts?...

I am,or I was,I really don't know why I stopped.I had a quite successful gaming channel on my native language,and since my fellow countrymen aren't exactly fond of accepting differences,especially not...

"Band of Brothers" rallies around 6 year old boy with a speech impediment to fight back against teasing. I thought I would share this heartwarming story with you all

"Band of Brothers" rallies around 6 year old boy with a speech impediment to fight back against teasing. I thought I would share this heartwarming story with you all ...

A dysfluent pattern of talking in which nervousness or anxiety is the only time it occurs is not a "typical" stuttering pattern. Dysfluencies occur due to various etiologies. It may be a secondary beh...

I have this. I stammer when anxious and also have tourettes ticks when stressed. I stutter regardless but it is extremely worse when in social situations. You're not the only one....

"Stutter isn't caused by anxiety" for me, this is bullshit. Of course, stuttering *does* cause anxiety, but is also caused by it. The thing is, stuttering has two roots: emotional and physiological. ...

I think I might stutter but only when anxious?

I think I might stutter but only when anxious? I find that whenever I get nervous or anxious, I end up stuttering slightly around people. I've read that stuttering isn't caused by anxiety but the othe...

I suffer from the same problem. Been stuttering since the age of 6 I think and its been been getting worse it seems (or maybe not...but it still is very bad). It is a hereditary thing for me as my fat...

That would make sense! Thanks for the potential insight :)...

Yeah, I totally understand that, and I was a little drunk when I wrote my reply to you so I probably wasn't as articulate as I could have been :) I more meant that we were all kind of doing the same ...

Thank you! glad things went smoothly. Rome might have been harder to get out, because it's cool to share he's going to a neat place like Rome so subconsciously, he might have been excited to share and...

yeah, that can definitely be a bit annoying. i usually try to politely hint, thank you but im not looking for your help lol....