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Accommodations that exempt from oral presentations? What do you mean? Do you have that? Do you know others who have that accommodation?...

This is true. But if you don't treat yourself like you're normal, others won't. You have to lay claim to the ground you walk on and exist unapologetically. When you're 80, you'll probably think to...

First off: I think it is a natural male impulse to exploit weakness. However, it is not right. It is not morally acceptable. Behavior like that violates every social compact we have struggled to put t...

Native mandarin speaker and fluent in English. I’m able to mask it much easily in mandarin for having a wider vocabulary and maybe just the enunciation of the language. In English there are many very...

I’m covert by preference, open by lack of choice. When I’m at my best I’m very good at coping, but when I get tired, stressed, or sad I just roll on with it. I still cope (diaphragmatic breathing etc....

i absolutely despise when this or something similar happens to me but you wont see me outwardly express for a few reasons : 1. to me it signals that you view my speech as something you don't want t...

SAME! I just came from a job fair, and I stuttered horribly, and almost everyone had a negative reaction to it. It's like they want to hire people with perfect speech. So unrealistic. You went through...

I definitely stutter more in English than my native tongue, and I’ve been living the States for over 35 yrs. Some weird thing that brain of ours. ...

needed this...

Covert or open stutter?

Covert or open stutter? I didn't know I was a covert stutter'er until I went into speech therapy. I didn't even know hiding your stutter had a term. Anyway, thankfully through speech therapy I'm learn...

Yep English and French but in different ways. When I speak English I deal with blocks more, but with French it's more of a repetition stutter. ...

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I learned so much Spanish in high school but I think this was my main issue. My reading and vocab were decent/above average, but trying to maintain a proper accent and get through sentences was imposs...

idk who needs to hear this but you dont have to be “inspirational” all the time

idk who needs to hear this but you dont have to be “inspirational” all the time so yea this is kinda a rant / kinda a hug post i keep seeing all these crazy high effort “i conquered my stutter and no...

Reflexion on the movie « I Swear »

Reflexion on the movie « I Swear » The movie I Swear follows a man who has Tourette’s syndrome. It’s a completely different condition from stuttering (which I have had all my life), but the movie real...

Assholes everywhere. Cream rises to the top my friend, keep just doing your best....

Interesting. I have a life long stutter and was diagnosed autistic at 44yo.. never really considered the stutter linked to anything outside of a speech impediment. But here I am. 46yo now and in fl...

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You need to ask, it varies from person to person. Some are okay with it imo most hate it. ...

I prefer for people to wait for me to finish. To move the sentence along, or try to guess what I am trying to say, it tells me they are growing impatient (which adds to my stress levels, which makes ...