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commentr/StutterJul 21, 2024
7 points

Make it your strength. Find a more intensive cognitive job where such basic speech aesthetics aren’t the core of the value chain. Leave that job for usuals. Your stutter suggests more than avg iq, you...

School & WorkIdentity & Disability
Employment & CareerIdentity & Self-Perception
commentr/StutterJul 21, 2024
2 points

But I wonder, why a person who sttutter wouldn’t be able to do that job? I believe we are. The message is delivered, in a different way as fluents, yes, but it is still delivered....

School & WorkIdentity & Disability
Employment & CareerAcceptance & Pride
commentr/StutterJul 21, 2024
6 points

What is meant by this? What is there to know about your blocks? Do you mean the physical causes underlying them? Are you implying that if you learn about your blocks you will no longer stutter?...

School & Work
Employment & Career
commentr/StutterJul 20, 2024
1 points

Not really. You have the skills you should be able to find a job easily. You also need a bachelor's degree in business administration to manage a team from the start. There's not less opportunities, y...

School & Work
Employment & Career
commentr/StutterJul 20, 2024
1 points

Corrections safety officer. The job advertised said security patrol unit for a small town I live in. They told me I'd have to go live in brandon for a paid security guard training program and then L...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSchool & Work
Avoidance & SubstitutionEmployment & Career
commentr/StutterJul 20, 2024
9 points

It means to understand the ins and outs of stuttering, what causes stuttered speech and know how to resolve it when it appears or reappears. Fundamentally, repetitions, prolongations or long silences...

School & WorkSpeech & Stuttering
Employment & CareerBlocks & Stoppages
commentr/StutterJul 20, 2024
2 points

Yeah I found out yesterday it was for an out of town training thing for corrections officer, would've had to leave for 3 months to train and then move to Brandon for a term position at a jail. So I th...

School & Work
Employment & Career
postr/StutterJul 20, 2024
28 points

Bad experience at work!

Bad experience at work! I had a bad experience of work because of my stutter and it’s stuck with me ever since even though i quit the job. Basically, i used to work at Greggs (a bakery chain in the UK...

School & WorkSpeech & StutteringEmotional Experience
Employment & CareerBlocks & StoppagesFrustration & Anger
commentr/StutterJul 19, 2024
18 points

Stuttering made me more empathetic and accepting of people with any disability. Ironically, stuttering made me more outgoing. I tried to be perfect (it’s from having a pushy Jewish mom) in other way...

Identity & DisabilityCommunity & SupportCauses & Variability
Acceptance & PrideValidation & EmpathyRoles & Performance+1 more
commentr/StutterJul 19, 2024
5 points

I remember doing in-person interviews before the internet. I knew the exact moment I lost the job because I could read the look on their faces after the first awkward and crushing block. But, it made ...

School & WorkEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability
Employment & CareerHelplessness & AgencyStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterJul 19, 2024
2 points

My friend scored me a job working full time, it's not anything special and just minimum wage but atleast I'm getting somewhere. Thanks for the comments everyboty...

School & Work
Employment & Career
commentr/StutterJul 19, 2024
2 points

If talking is a critical part of the job; say telephone customer service—can they “discriminate?” Whereas other jobs may be much less so…I wonder where the line is drawn?...

School & Work
Employment & CareerAccess & Rights
commentr/StutterJul 19, 2024
3 points

If you have solid proof, you can sue. The job market is just awful right now, I’m 1k applications and ~20 interviews deep and I still don’t have a job, but I don’t think it’s the stutter, it’s just em...

School & WorkEmotional Experience
Employment & CareerHelplessness & Agency
postr/StutterJul 19, 2024
13 points

Is stuttering considered a disability under US law?

Is stuttering considered a disability under US law? I got rejected from multiple job interviews for my stutter, and for the jobs I managed to get I got harassed by my co-workers and even some of my ma...

School & WorkIdentity & Disability
Employment & CareerStigma & BullyingAccess & Rights
commentr/StutterJul 19, 2024
1 points

Unfortunately not, blagged connection so I could turn my camera off as I wanted to read from a script and even with this I got stuck and blocked loads of words, had 2 interviews in the past 2 days and...

Speech & StutteringSchool & WorkAnticipation & Avoidance
Blocks & StoppagesEmployment & CareerAvoidance & Substitution
commentr/StutterJul 18, 2024
10 points

No offense, but get out of your fucking pity party and MAKE a life. Maybe you don’t have friends because of your attitude? Or worse, you’re a jerk. You cannot blame everything on your stuttering. You ...

Coping & AdvocacyEmotional ExperienceSchool & Work
Mindset shiftHelplessness & AgencyEmployment & Career
postr/StutterJul 18, 2024
42 points

I'm Single, no Career and no friends because of stuttering

I'm Single, no Career and no friends because of stuttering I have been single for life no Girlfriend ever, i have just completed my study and in all the interviews i got rejected and i have no friend...

Emotional ExperienceSchool & WorkSocial & Relationships
Helplessness & AgencyEmployment & CareerLoneliness & Isolation+2 more
commentr/StutterJul 18, 2024
2 points

>No matter how many times I try to stop comparing, it just keeps coming back and I genuinely don’t think there’s any possible way to stop it besides medication (if that would even work). Maybe I'm l...

Causes & VariabilitySchool & Work
Severity & FluctuationEmployment & Career
commentr/StutterJul 18, 2024
2 points

Severity from 1-10 (where 10 is most severe) I was fluctuating between 6 and 4. Somehow, I made the interviews, and nobody was so focused on how but what I'm speaking about. I also noticed that 95+ pe...

Causes & VariabilitySchool & Work
Severity & FluctuationEmployment & Career
commentr/StutterJul 18, 2024
2 points

I’ve worked at 2 jobs like McDonald’s and currently work at a coffee shop where I take customers orders. It may be uncomfortable at first (like any new job), but after a while you will get in the rout...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSchool & Work
Avoidance & SubstitutionEmployment & Career