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commentr/StutterOct 31, 2025
1 points

Ups driver. Only have to talk to customers when they want to ask a stupid question or when I need a signature...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSchool & Work
Hiding & ConcealmentEmployment & Career
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2025
2 points

All of that, Vortesian. I’m old too, and people tell me they don’t even notice my stutter, as I work around it. I’m a master of word substitution, but the mental gymnastics of having to stay 6–7 words...

Anticipation & Avoidance
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentOverthinking & Monitoring
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2025
1 points

I'm an industry scientist, my fluency is moderate to mild most of the time. I have no problem giving presentations as I speak with a different cadence and i almost never stutter. Difficulty comes when...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Hiding & ConcealmentEnergy & Biological RhythmsAcceptance & Pride
commentr/StutterOct 31, 2025
3 points

For me the worst thing about stuttering was the fear of speaking to people. I was ashamed. Over the years I did all the things to mask it and I became an expert it hiding it. My wife just asked me w...

Anticipation & AvoidanceIdentity & Disability
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentOverthinking & Monitoring+3 more
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2025
1 points

I build maps for the Forest Service. My first job was answering the phones and doing customer service at a skydiving facility close to my house. It was a struggle starting out with my stutter but even...

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Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentStigma & Bullying
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2025
2 points

Relationships can always be tricky - regardless whether you stutter or not. You will naturally get along with some people more than others. I don’t think I’ve had a relationship end because of my stut...

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Hiding & ConcealmentAnxiety & Social JudgmentHope & Motivation+1 more
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2025
1 points

I'm assuming you're thinking I'm recording stuff in a studio booth around a lot of people. I haven't done anything that big yet. Pretty much everything I've done has been online, recorded in my room w...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSocial & Relationships
Hiding & ConcealmentDisclosure & Telling Others
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2025
18 points

I know my experience differs from others, but I haven't been made fun of since the first year I was in the Army. When I was, I would stop talking even if I was mid word, and give them the *really?* lo...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy
Hiding & ConcealmentSelf-Advocacy & Boundaries
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2025
3 points

I look a bit different (fair and copper hair) which is uncommon in my place, so people think im a foreigner, which helps me in covering up my stutter....

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Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & Concealment
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2025
1 points

Business analyst and some UX/UI. Work from home, small team, lots of meetings but small and made of known people. I still stumble a lot but I care less about it. Not a lot of margin for career growth ...

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Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & Concealment
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2025
1 points

Calls, mails, deal with advocates.... and i actually liking it because it is making me less scared of communication, although i stutter, but it's manageable now... i am actually doing the work now whi...

Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience
Hiding & ConcealmentHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterOct 30, 2025
1 points

These machines in fast food chains have been a HEAVENSENT! I swear, before those i never stepped foot inside a fast food restaurant by myself. Totally approving this message, i need it EVERYWHERE😭🙏✨...

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Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & Concealment
commentr/StutterOct 29, 2025
1 points

I'm a structural engineer, and I have to talk to people on the phone frequently. Usually, my stuttering is less when I'm talking on the phone since I don't have to look at the other persons face and s...

School & WorkAnticipation & Avoidance
Employment & CareerHiding & Concealment
commentr/StutterOct 29, 2025
1 points

Yeah thats literally what happened to me, Talking to her and even the random coworkers she had come in to have me talk to, my stutter wasnt as bad like to the point i wouldnt be in this sub if it was ...

Causes & VariabilityAnticipation & Avoidance
Situational VariabilityHiding & Concealment
commentr/StutterOct 29, 2025
2 points

I’m a production specialist with a remote corporate gifting company. Absolutely love it. Basically, I’m a project manager, created any kind of branded item you can think of. From apparel to hockey puc...

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Employment & CareerHiding & Concealment
commentr/StutterOct 29, 2025
5 points

I'm a systems admin/onsite IT for a manufacturing firm. My fluency used to be dogshit until I got a job answering phones for a helpdesk and the sink or swim environment really got me over it somehow....

School & WorkAnticipation & AvoidanceCoping & Advocacy
Employment & CareerHiding & ConcealmentSelf-Advocacy & Boundaries
commentr/StutterOct 29, 2025
1 points

I’ve been dating since I was 14… I was always a covert stutterer and people just passed it off as I’m a shy boy. I met my wife when I was 15. Now I’m 54. 😎👍🏼...

Anticipation & AvoidanceSocial & Relationships
Hiding & ConcealmentDating & Romance
commentr/StutterOct 28, 2025
1 points

Honestly, DM. Without coming across as cocky. I have quite a fair few amount of partners and gfs. I get it can be harder than normal but you have to change other things and show confidence in other wa...

Social & RelationshipsAnticipation & Avoidance
Dating & RomanceHiding & Concealment
commentr/StutterOct 28, 2025
3 points

Man, I envy you. I wish I had the same switch flip when I turned on the recording. I definitely stutter a lot less when I'm doing it though....

Anticipation & Avoidance
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & Concealment
commentr/StutterOct 28, 2025
8 points

Fellow VO here and person who stutters; it's very interesting how I get a script, do my analysis, and when I add a bumper word and hit record, there is no stutter. Cold reads are my nemesis, but whe...

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