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How did I deal with the awkward moments? That depends on how awkward my interlocutor would make those moments. There were people who literally just waited for me to finish talking, and even if my stu...

Stuttering is weird and it wouldn’t surprise me if having started your new job without stuttering put a lot of stress on you. Always hoping you’d be able to keep it up, worrying it would come back, un...

My story

My story Hi guys, I am a mild to severe stutterer. I suffer from my stutter mentally. I feel like my stutter is holding me back in life and I often think about how my stutter will affect my live in t...

Am I the only one who sometimes just wants to smash things and yell?

Am I the only one who sometimes just wants to smash things and yell? Sometimes I get so frustrated from stuttering that I just want to yell and throw kicks at something. I hate it when I stutter in my...

Honestly curious. How do people "forget about" or "hide" their stutter for any period of time?...

I shouldn't have even gotten my hopes up.

I shouldn't have even gotten my hopes up. After everything I had to go through and months of waiting, my waiver to join the army was denied. I don't care what people say, a severe stutter holds me bac...

I have endless stories. I remember driving an old boss through a drive-thru (a big fear of mine) and getting stuck with her order. I sat there staring at the ordering station, dripping sweat/shaking,...

You sound just like me. I'm 40 and have found plenty of ways to hide mine. Most coworkers do t know I do, and I have daily conversations with them. I think this is more common than we all think....

Having trouble finding a professional job

Having trouble finding a professional job Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone here has a degree in business and works in that field. If you don't mind me asking, what kind of job do you have? I ...

I don’t have any serious technical skills, so to make any relatively high salary takes speaking, whether on the phone or zoom. I work for a consulting firm that provides a high paying service. If I so...

I stutter more around familiar people. But I also try much much harder to not stutter around people I don’t know. Probably because I know my family won’t judge me....

I wish I could not give a fuck, like I did when I was a clueless teenager. But out in the workforce, stuttering can affect your job, and therefore your income. I don’t wanna be struggling financially ...

I have been advised to let people know several times. However I still don’t for 2 reasons: 1. The word “stutter” is hard for me to say, of course lol! Although speech impediment could work. 2. Unfortu...

Not really but it's hard to tell, I mostly block and a lot of people never realise I have a stutter...

Besides my brother, one of my ex-colleagues had a stutter, and his was quite severe when it started going (heard jerks and all that jazz). But he was super witty and knowledgeable and not really shy, ...

Got my first job!

Got my first job! I've been stuttering my whole life but during the pandemic it's just getting worse as we start online school. I took Graphic Design for my degree and for the last 2 semester it has b...

Honestly I was in the same boat I put off getting a job as long as possible. I can genuinely say that I am very happy I did because it was a lot less scary that I imagined and it taught me that I buil...

Yeah ive been starting this. I finished high school a few weeks ago and where im from u sign everyones shirt on the last day. Going up to and asking my crush to sign each other was the scariest thing ...

People see I'm always silent, introvert as heck, weird, not being able to keep a conversation (which I can) and having no friends because I can't make them in person I don't care what people think of...

how did I get here

how did I get here Reddit suggests things all the time...how tf it know I have a stutter!? Like legit stutter. I've stuttered since I was 5. I'm 31 now. How does everyone deal with theirs? Like with r...