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Call the Restaurant and ask for a manager and explain you situation and say you strongly believe there employees need more sensitivity training around people with speech impediments Feedback can be r...

As a stutterer, this has happened to me several times. However, I've realized that people might laugh/get mad/ignore if they don't know how to react to someone stuttering. Usually they don't do it o...

I've never gotten anyone fired because I guess the workers that I've encountered are smart enough to not laugh at customers (at least right in front me). I have beaten people up for it back in school ...

I would suggest that OP brings it up again and see if they can email the restaurant's owner. They could easily not bring up the specific name, but rather say they had an \[unnamed\] waiter who laughed...

Fun story: my mum has actually gotten people fired for taking the piss out of my stutter. A cashier made the big mistake of mimicking my stutter TO my mother, (I stammered on cookies and he went “so c...

I’m sorry to hear that you and your fiancée had to go through that experience must have been hard unfortunately it does happen, a lot of ppl lack self awareness when it comes to stuttering, I she does...

A restaurant server laughed at my fiancée when she was stuck on a word, and I could use some advice

A restaurant server laughed at my fiancée when she was stuck on a word, and I could use some advice My fiancée is my favorite person in the entire world. She has a stutter that worsens when she's arou...

I stutter when I’m angry. I do it so rarely that I when I forget myself and “say my peace “ I get all tounge tied and people laugh. My point is immediately ignored and dismissed. My family even does i...

Why have i started stuttering?

Why have i started stuttering? When i was around 2-5 I would never speak for personal reasons in my family which was my first bit of difficulty but once i got out of that situation i was a happy kid. ...

I'm 32 now, and I didn't really talk about it throughout all of middle and high school. I was active in class and decently social. College is when it became a major complex as I began to be made fun o...

Since you’re trying to write a character, I think it’s very important to try to understand the mind of a stutterer. You may have specific situations in mind that you want to write into your story, but...

1. Plosive sounds. 2. Prolonging the first part of the word or just the sentence in general. 3. Depends. If i know them, and they have been around me for a while, I will straight up tell them hey wtf...

I'm not a PWS, but some issues that I've come across are: -not dating someone whose name is too hard -ordering something you don't want because it's too hard to say the right thing -people thinking...

To be honest, you are likely to experience a higher rate of incident than the average person of people thinking you are a bit stupid, smiling awkwardly at you etc. It's always going to happen. This h...

I didn't realize I stuttered until high school when someone told me what it was. It was just how I've always talked, and no one had ever given me any flack about it as a kid. I found that my stutter o...

Hey! Thanks honestly I think that’s what I need to do not let my stutter affect me or stop me from doing what I want to do. But yeah I get you there’s been many many times where I’ve been talking to s...

Yo man, i know what you mean like ur worried ur stutter will affect your job, it shouldn’t matter what your speech is like, if your good at the job your applying for then thats all that matters, i kn...

Yeah it’s a thing hey. Apparently all stammerers struggle with their name, seems cruel!...

I get annoyed when people without fluency disorders say they stutter

I get annoyed when people without fluency disorders say they stutter I was put in speech therapy at 18 months old for mixed SSD (articulation disorder + phonological delay) and fluency disorder (stutt...

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts, I have a question that I would like to share. What do you mean by "it is about them" ? For example if someone is laughing about your stutter or he doesn't ...