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99% of the time, if someone makes fun of your stutter it’s cus they didn’t know you have a stutter. No one is maliciously doing it. I just say “hey I have a stutter” and they typically apologize or ...

How do you deal with people making fun of your stutter?

How do you deal with people making fun of your stutter? ...

Haha, yeah wierd thats its such a common thing in SA. Some people straight up get a fright when I speak then try and keep their distance. I've learnt to ignore it but it still isn't nice to have peop...

Anyone else been mistaken for being "slow" or down syndrome?

Anyone else been mistaken for being "slow" or down syndrome? Happens with me alot in shops and supermarkets. I geuss here in South Africa its not a well known thing. I even did some volunteer work for...

Well done on speaking up! Hopefully their phone calls are recorded so the owner can listen to the full conversation but, they might not have that set up if they’re a small business. It’s all about ho...

Mate, good on you! Like I said in my original post, it’s unacceptable to treat a customer like that. Well done! 👍🏼...

I've had fluent teachers who can't explain things well. If a student can't pay attention when a professor is stuttering, then that's on them. I have seen well known professors with stutters who can ex...

Garage Company Update!

Garage Company Update! For everyone who has seen the garage companys complete unprofessionalism i have an update! I decided a bad review wasn’t really good enough, so i decided to make a facebook po...

I would email the owner of the business and make a formal complaint. That kind of behaviour towards anyone, especially a customer, is unacceptable and discriminatory. As whether they mock other peopl...

Nah we got you man. Time to name and shame. If it happened to you, it couldve happened to all of us. Im amped to leave a 0 star review bc of their unprofessionalism and discrimination against a disabi...

Almost everyone I know asks me if I've checked a company's reviews on Google before I use them. Google reviews are the deciding factor in so many consumer choices. I've decided not to go to otherwise ...

Leave a scathing 1 star review on their Google listing. Also, send an email to the garage lodging a formal complaint about that person and stating that you're going to tell everyone you know to avoid...

definitely never doing business with them again 🤣, which is a shame cause they are one of the more popular ones in my area...

Mom is 62 and dad is 72. My parents are also in their early to mid 60’s and they would never say those things. Technically her parents just said “we can tell he’s not the one for you” and that was b...

A garage company literally teased me.

A garage company literally teased me. I’m not usually one to care about stuff like this but the unprofessionalism was off the scale, My car has a leak from the coolant.. long story short i dropped my ...

He's spreading misinformation. Ignorant people are so quick to assume your blocks as a sign of hesitance and your secondary frowns as a sign of irrational anger and he's adding fuel to that misinforma...

I wish but I'm not in a fair country, we can't choose classes at all, and I've faced discrimination from even the head of department so I'll just try not to keep his words to heart....

The issue is 'communication skills'. There are many, many people who don't stutter who have appalling communication skills, and that includes academia. Likewise, there are people with speech impedimen...

In Australia a lecturer with a sometimes severe stutter was named as top lecturer at his university at ranked 14th overal in a competition with 4000. https://stamma.org/your-voice/case-stuttering-le...

Is it right for us to do some jobs just because we technically can?

Is it right for us to do some jobs just because we technically can? Yesterday my professor of social and cognitive psychology was speaking about paraverbal communication and how it affects the way peo...