Search

Im trying to join the Marine Corps as well, but i got denied because of my stutter. I am trying for a waiver right now. It has gotten approved by the major and the colonel and i just need it to get ap...

I don’t think there would ever be a medication/cure since how do you stop the brain from developing/stopping a stutter they might be like devices the same ones to help people with epilepsy or cut out ...

Stuttering isn’t covered by the ADA, so a lawsuit wouldn’t stick here...

https://www.discrimlaw.net/2022/04/25/discriminated-against-workplace-stuttering/#:~:text=Speaking%20and%20communicating%20are%20considered,considered%20disabled%20under%20the%20ADA. First google res...

Personal opinion in this question doesn’t matter at all. It is objectively a disability. Accepting that doesn’t make you weak, it makes you grounded in reality....

a few reasons: 1. stutterers who say they're not disabled usually associate "being disabled" with "being inferior as a person", whether consciously or subconsciously 2. stuttering is probably the si...

So then why do some people not classify stuttering as a disability? It also feels like we don't get the usual protections. This will always baffle me....

Yes, I accept it as a disability. It kind of gives me a different perspective. I actually never accepted that I have a limitation when it came to speaking but lately I have accepted that fact and feel...

Unless a stutter is mild enough that it doesn't affect your speech in any significant way, it's factually a disability by definition (see my other comment). It's not really a choice you make...

I mean, it is a disability. At least in the US. The official definition of a disability by the ADA is : "An individual with a disability is defined by the ADA as a person who has a physical or mental...

Mate that’s not right thing to think, you can't compare yourself to someone who can’t walk just because you can’t speak fluently, these have big differences, especially where you think you can park th...

I don't know what he wanted to tell with that video, If stuttering yours is a disability, it doesn't mean you have to park the car for people with disabilities to me that’s sounds a lot crazy, they ca...

I always wondered if I could get a handicapped placard because of it and be able to park in the handicapped spots. Might as well get some benefit from it...

Theres a scene in Curb where an able-bodied person parks in the handicapped spot and larry gets out and says hey, youre not disabled and then he stutters. Obviously this is taking it to an extreme bu...

It definitely is for me. It's different for everyone though. I have to write just to communicate so it falls under a disability for sure....

Yo bro why would your stutter stop you from getting your license?...

I have attempted to use that a couple times on my phone, but it didn’t really go well and resulted in the person I was speaking with disconnecting. Not really sure what I did wrong. I did it with the ...

When I was I kid in the 80/90 I heard about the phone system for the deaf and have never understood why other disabilities can use it....

You and I seem to have different views about what acceptance means. Accepting stutter means accepting that we have a stutter and we still have the right to speak and participate in life. As for actu...

You have an accommodation. You don’t have to do it if you don’t want to. But your prof isn’t wrong — it could be good for everyone if you did share it....