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I have a cousin that’s 14. He was the worst about my picking on me for my stutter and he got away with it because “he’s the baby” One night, my family, (grandma, his mom, and 2/4 of his siblings and ...

I'm not anymore, since I realised its not my fault. Whenever they make a joke about my speech, I just remind them that I'm a product of their genes, making them find flaws in themselves. Turn the pers...

im honestly not sure. ive never once that one day they became an obstacle. when i was younger, id go through phases of letters i could and couldnt say. i remember when i was eleven, i couldnt say el...

Yeah so the police officer thinks you're trying to pull out a gun and shoots you in the face. "Cause of death: stutter" will not look good on a tombstone....

I typically don’t. They get the point. Sometimes I try to use synonyms, like “speech impediment” or “speech issue” or “my brain sucks ass sometimes”. I’ve been pulled over and asked my name. I could...

Was the initial comment making fun of your stutter? If so, I’ve had that several times in life. When I was a young kid, I would walk away. As a teen, a simple fist to the face solved a lot. As an adul...

Im soo sorry to hear that, similar thing happened to me when I was young , I worked in a car workshop and the man who I worked with told me that " If you keep doing this ( he meant stuttering and bare...

I actually had to quit my job today because of the anxiety that my stutter caused. Some of my coworkers would mock me and management wouldn’t do anything about it. I would get so anxious and worried w...

It gets harder

It gets harder I’m a male working as engineer, I have stuttered my whole life. At some point in my life when I lived in the US I came to accept my stuttering and many people were cool, I got to meet p...

Look at this way. If someone said something to you and stuttered a little (or a lot) would you discount what they had to say? Or if they had a lisp? Or if they were stood at 4’3? You probably wouldn’t...

man talk about blaming someone for their own disability, that kinda stuff angers me good to hear things are going better for you tho...

I’m on the other end to this completely. I work full time at a bowling alley. I interact with people daily that I would never speak to on the street. I work front desk, so I’m talking with them and he...

yup this. same for my country tbh, stuttering is a sign of low/no confidence so employers tend to not hire those with stutters....

Most schools in Italy take into serious consideration your fluency for your grade in oral subjects and presentations, they think that stuttering means you aren’t very confident or knowledgeable to wha...

Yeah, tech recruiters see stammering during interviews as incompetence. I can’t remember how many times I have gotten “we went with someone with more matching skillset”....

Does stuttering affect how capable people think you are in a professional/educational setting?

Does stuttering affect how capable people think you are in a professional/educational setting? I feel like it happens to me constantly and I'm so fucking sick of it. I've definitely gotten this impres...

People that mock you for your stutter are the ones that'll mock you regardless of whether you have a stutter or not. They'll just find another thing to mock you on. It is them that has the problem, ...

At this point in my life, embrace it. Any person who is going to put you down or talk over you when they know you’re trying to talk, they’re just outting themselves as dirtbags and you don’t have to t...

I dont get mocked (oppenly at least). I can imagine it can be hard to deal with. People not taking me seriously is their problem....

It is disheartening that the impediment always haunts you...the most inopportune times as well. But the most important aspect of any hardship is how resilient the person is. When you battle you must ...