Search

I literally relate to you so hard. As soon as people got to that stage of their childhood that they were assholes, I became “the stupid kid.” My stutter gets drastically worse when I read, so that jus...

At the beginning of my formal education in the early 80's, the school system tagged me with a similar moniker. My condition was definitely worsened by my classmates and I found myself sinking into my ...

This is true! I had an ex girlfriend who used to make fun of me for mine... I hope she burns in hell...

People think I’m slow and stupid for stuttering.

People think I’m slow and stupid for stuttering. Yesterday I was expressing some things I was passionate about and I kept f*cking up and having prolongations and blocks. But I kept going because why n...

If professionals claim to cure your stutter - I would highly advise to not see them again. It is well known amongst speech language therapists there is no ‘cure’ to stuttering, as in a binary “I have ...

Don’t you ever feel ashamed of your stutter. You need to put people like that in their place. It enrages me when people look down at us like that. We are perfectly capable of talking, god forbid someo...

>people here with the looks, the giggles and the comments Who are these people? - >I tried to do the steps I did before to help myself but it doesn’t seem to work Which steps are those?...

No she’s stayed at our house before because she had no place to live. She for sure knew I had a stutter because we’ve talked before. I just really was offended because it was infront of my whole famil...

well, on of my dream medical school rejected me because of my stutter and now I do not know whether I am compatible or not....

if you dont know the sister’s friend that well then thats just a dick move and she had no reason to butt in and tell you to spit it out...

The "spit it out" comment is always the worst. Because no one wants us to spit it out more than us! And many people don't understand that. Don't let that ignorance get to you! I think the best soluti...

Nah that’s not a good excuse. Sure maybe they hadn’t seen a stutter before, but that doesn’t justify saying “spit it out”, which is a phrase I cannot see being used without at least some means of disr...

I hope she apologized to you. Whether she meant it maliciously or not, she shouldn’t have done that to you...

Yes they all know that’s why I left the room because it was quiet. I didn’t see my dads face i was turned the other way but my sisters boyfriend said he looked bothered when she told me that. And then...

some snobby mom asked “are you stupid?” when i was blocking at work. i was 16 and working at a local flower shop. that took all my confidence, fuck karens....

“the times i self advocate i leave the conversation feeling like i did something wrong” WOW I FELT THAT. i have a lot of similar experiences. target actually hired me because my first interview was re...

This happened to me a lot of times. That's y I never travel in a bus if I don't have a pass or a card. I've skipped classes because I was afraid to travel by bus. The annoying conductor never misses t...

A similar thing happened to me too. I was at a class of nearly 300 students. It was a lecture for an exam I was taking up. I was sat in the last row of this bunch and this faculty started asking quest...

Oh my god! How can people do that!? Hey I really want you to get over this man! Show these assholes u r stronger. The ppl who did this to you must be living a horrible life rn and if not I pray that t...

Being a PWS in the Workplace and How to Self-Advocate

Being a PWS in the Workplace and How to Self-Advocate Long time lurker, first time poster. This is piggybacking on the post asking the community if their stutter was used against them in a professio...