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I'm sorry you had to overhear that. It seems like in this new age of neurodiversity that stuttering, and speech impediments in general, seem to be one of the only disabilities the general public think...

It's pain, heart to heart honest talk here, I'm a dentist now and ever since I was a kid I was laughed at and bullied for stuttering, I'm a 23 year old man who can't say his own name properly if asked...

Erggg…. Yeah…that’s icky. I guess it’s great that I keep forgetting what I overheard my old boss saying about me after I told her I was leaving - maybe it’s better bc you have to wait and wait for he...

I overheard a couple former coworkers making comments about how much they pity me for my stutter and one straight out told a coworker that she shouldn't do something with me outside of the office beca...

You have to embrace it.. The sooner you do the better. It would drive me insane if I thought about my stuttering that hard lol. 😂 It may get better as you age. I got my stuttering upgrade at age ...

Stuttering is more about knowing what you want to say and it doesn't come out as you'd like. After a while, your brain gets so busy coming up with work-arounds, that you get confused/overwhelmed and...

Is stammering/stuttering a psychological problem?

Is stammering/stuttering a psychological problem? ​ Hello. I have been a stammer from the age of 6-7. Before that, I was fluent in fact I was so fluent and efficient on speaking that it wa...

When did I start stuttering: at age 3 Why didn't I outgrow it: I think because I made it into a habit to evaluate my stuttering during a block, for example anticipatory fear like "I can't breathe out...

Had some younger kids keep questioning me when I was growing up what I was doing and the best way they could understand it was that it was a "disease" haha. Every time I saw them they asked if I still...

What you may have encountered does not invalidate the fact that most stutterers are kind hearted. Cruel people are just damaged, as some stutterers are...

Talking to my classmates back then to make friends (starting of school) then i stuttered on talking about stuff and they be like “What was that just now? Are you joking?” And then the other one would ...

I don’t think they’re common but I ran into a handful in my lifetime. Worked with one for a while until he quit. He was a cool guy though...

Yes, a bunch of people. I work with one guy, my former neighbor, as well as a friend who I see regulary in my sport. They all stutter way more often than I do. I feel the same uneasy-ness as people w...

This is our plight… It never gets easier to have to endure the barbs from ignorant strangers…However, even worse on the occasions when you have to endure it from those you admire....

Same. I shed a tear reading this. It’s not fair. It happened way too often where people would mock me just because I stuttered in an argument....

Sometimes being discounted as a person as a whole just for having stutter sucks and rips the confidence into 1000 paper cuts

Sometimes being discounted as a person as a whole just for having stutter sucks and rips the confidence into 1000 paper cuts Sorry just a vent!!!!...

Similar experience when i was doing intake for a procedure. Said I blocked/stuttered and it often made it difficult to communicate about certain atypical conditions that increased my anxiety when atte...

Lack of knowledge. When I had my daughter, they asked me while I was in labor a bunch of questions, including one about any communication difficulties. I told them I stuttered and found out a month or...

Omg thankyou! Literally everyone ive ever met thinks I'm a freak and they've never seen anyone with my problem. It made people not want to be around me. I hate that you went through something similar...

You weren’t wrong at all. The manager was the one being an ass. Especially when you told him you had a speech impediment the first time you called him...