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Stutter With Confidence #59 with Raiani Sibien - Taking Back Control Over How We Feel About Ourselves

Stutter With Confidence #59 with Raiani Sibien - Taking Back Control Over How We Feel About Ourselves https://youtu.be/MyUEfoVbS78 I had a lot of fun talking with Raiani, who works at NATO and is one...

I'm 32 and have stuttered my whole life. A few things that have helped me. When I can tell a certain sound or word is coming up that triggers my stutter, I try to find another word or sound to avoid ...

People always project themselves into others, they think that our problem is an easy fix because they don't have to deal with it. I think that you can indeed do any job with enough dicipline and care ...

We (stutterers) make more of our stutter than others do. I stutter pretty frequently— not debilitating, but I have blocks and prolongations of some sort in just about every sentence. I’ve worked in sa...

Yes. The worst part about the whole thing is how you can so easily perceive people's lack of respect for you....

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Security Guard My stutter is pretty bad so my verbal communication is not that reliable, especially in high stress situations. I've been trying to find a job for a while and my father insists that my ...

You won’t be able to tell in the moment, but there’s nothing, that person is called “waste” and they’ll sink to the bottom when they’re only surrounded by people just like themselves. So tip would be...

I also like to think. It helps you narrow down faster than most, where the pricks are and aren’t. Because to tolerate a disfluency you need to be at least not a total scumbag, like our nurse friend he...

they arent "great friends" if they choose to leave/ignore u because of a stutter...

One word of advice: if you can get the strength to do so, always try to challenge the asshole that makes an insensitive joke. Even if you need to stutter your way to do so, the look of embarrassment o...

It's not your fault. If your stutter bothers them so much they don't want to be your friend, that's a problem with them....

People are very uneducated and this person was either not exposed to other stutterers before or taught anything about it. Im sorry you had to go through that. Just know she is uneducated and u can use...

Fuck that person, its horrible having a stutter in retail but I couldn’t imagine it in a hospital. You’re more than your stutter and its so fucked that even in 2022 having a stutter is still stigmatiz...

Are you sure they’re avoiding you due to it? Are they super asshole people?? It takes a special kind of asshole to decide to not be someone’s friend due to something like this. It seems unlikely. Most...

sorry to hear that. it's tough, but you just have to brush it off and keep trucking! having a stutter definitely makes you a tough person, and it's a great way to figure out if someone is an asshole o...

This situation is embarrassing for those ‘friends’. People who won’t put any effort in to be your friend were never going to be good friends for you anyway. Im sorry it’s got you feeling embarrassed. ...

It's not your fault! If they stopped talking to you because of your stutter then they wouldn't have been great friends anyway. You're better off without people like them....

Asked if I was having a stroke at work

Asked if I was having a stroke at work I have had a stutter for as long as I can remember. Majority of people never comment on it. However, today is different. I'm a certified nursing assistant at a m...

I had something similar happen to me, I stuttered in a group presentation and my best friend who knows about my stuttering lost her sh*t. She yelled at me and shoved me in class in front of everyone (...

I've had similar things happen before, the best thing to do is move on. > I lost an opportunity to make great friends because of my stupid stutter No, a couple stutterphobes lost an opportunity t...