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Senior Account Executive (Sales), Florida I’ve been fired multiple times for stuttering. Edward Jones was the most high-profile company that let me go. But I kept at it. I’ve been fired from insuranc...

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I absolutely love this. That bar name is incredible. As a person who stutters, I know I’d stutter on “Warren” anyways. So we’d all be pronouncing it correctly. Ha! My wife and I have a similar arguin...

Might not be random but I avoid phone calls like the plague. I stutter much worse on the phone than when speaking to someone face to face for some reason. Usually every time I have a block and hang up...

Speech therapy idc people say 'it will help you stop' i went for 3 years and nothing helped i stopped going because why go when its useless to me?  I too sometimes wish thr need to interact with other...

Frrrr, especially thank you, and it's so embarrassing having a block on thank you because then you're "not polite", and it's still embarrassing even with people who know about your stutter. But excuse...

Ask stranger things. I randomly struggle with 'excuse' 'Sorry' 'thank', and 'you'. So it's a lottery of me saying,'Excuse me, can you .....' It's when of a few things I still get frustrated after I ...

Avoiding n/nasal sounds. I just don't know even if I have random onset of stutter, I always stutter when there's an n sound in a word, specially if in starts with it....

UNO, i can't say uno when im down to one card. So, basically, im doomed to never win because i always end up drawing 2 cards hhhh, stupid ass rule...

oh no i just bought a slipknot shirt and when someone asks me to name songs (bestie did gaha) i say "how about NO"...

Did mock with my parents, been preparing 2 for weeks. I couldn’t even say my name properly. I usually have milder stutter but this one was so severe...

Oh that shit would make me mad. We don’t want people to feel sorry for us! And it’s not our parents fault! And speech therapy helps but it doesn’t make it go away. I was in speech therapy from kinderg...

whenever i HAVE to say something i always just can't its so sad. especially with remotes and when someone makes you say your name...

I’ve made it through presentations decent enough before when I get in the right mind and focus, but I ran into a hard t early on which is the pronunciation that usually kills me and just knew it wasn’...

I have felt that way my whole life, although usually my trade was something smaller, like a finger or even a hand. I had never used Reddit before, but finding this at least reminds me that I am not al...

I would trade a leg + an eye + 5 Inches of my height and i would still consider this a fair deal. Speaking fluently just opens up so much more opportunities, it is unbelievable. The amount of wasted c...

Process Engineer in R&D in the US. I do have to present to large teams a lot and I do a lot of hiring work for my company. I don't stutter as much as I did as a kid but Ms and Ns are always hard. I ha...

Fortunately I’ve never stuttered my name, it’s always been everything else...

I speak English as my first language, and also speak Bengali and Arabic. I stutter more in my latter to languages which I think is because my brain isn’t as comfortable with them...

My personal hate is "m" which just so happens to be the first letters of my name. "Hi, what yours name" "Oh uh um *makes dumb face*" "What was that" "S-s-sorry uhh mmmmy name is... mmmm mmm ...