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Don't let that stop you. I stutter - blocks mostly - and work for an international airline in a communications role, of all things. You can find strategies to be successful....

Not exactly sure what you’re asking. If stuttering is classified as a disability and it helps getting care great. But to use it as a means to collect benefits, unless it’s truly debilitating...

Stuttering is leading to depression over the realization that I can probably never get a travel job due to it.

Stuttering is leading to depression over the realization that I can probably never get a travel job due to it. Hey y’all, I’m a high school senior with a stutter since childhood. I just feel like a sa...

I just retired after having a job, in one form or another, since 1969. I wish you had told me sooner. :) Seriously though do we want to make stuttering a disability? I know engineers, do...

Your are right. Limiting yourself to a career you only pursue to avoid stuttering is unfulfilling. Everyone has his own threshold of comfort as a stutterer. If a person is ok with communicating thoug...

I agree with you too, I think achievements that make you truly proud of yourself can give you a huge confidence boost (and also a lot of happiness and genuine satisfaction in general), I also agree wi...

I was in Army BCT and I stutter hell I even met a drill sgt that stutter just due that shit and also I will say condition your body to run....

That’s great to know. I thought it discriminatory to deny stutterers from military service. I’m happy for you. It can be a wonderful career and the benefits are numerous. Sue...

Not a service member but looking forward to join and serve in the military, and already preparing for it but I have a slight stutter. Any tips by a serviceman would be really appreciated!!...

Costal breathing (I did McGuire at 14) and exposure. Once I learned costal breathing method and viewed my stutter as a breath/block anxiety thing vs a mechanical impediment, I started doing school pub...

Are you enlisted or an officer? Im a stutterer and a widow of an officer. It was my belief that the military did not view stutterers as officer material. What have you experienced?...

Yes I am in the Air Force with a genetical stutter....

Stutters in the Armed Forces

Stutters in the Armed Forces Any service member in the U.S. Military...

Yeah we had to used the greeting too, such a nightmare it was a long greeting, every single time I answered I’d get stuck. My managers would do that same they’d make sure we used the greeting. I’ve si...

Yes, I very much agree with Bielzao about enlarging yourself. Your confidence will aid you socially as well as you in a trade or profession. As a stutterer, I always had the knowledge that I’d graduat...

Yeah I think not being able to see people’s facial expressions and body language is a big one and I also think getting a phone call catches me off guard so I’m not prepared like I sorta would be for a...

Happened to me when I was working in retail was on the phone to a customer who was asking about stock, stuttered so bad I just slammed the receiver down. Got someone else to re-dial the number...

I used to have those same thoughts in my head. But I don't think willing to have an average life is good bro. I think you need more ambition, dream big. Self-improvement, discipline, exercise, reading...

I returned to speech therapy. Same program and therapist that I had in my teens. Where I had limited success in my teens. The main difference was likely my maturity and effort. In my teens, as much ...

There is always hope, and it's important to remember that stuttering is a common speech disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. There are several ways to manage and treat stuttering, and m...