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Yeah, it’s why I’m attempting to get into medical coding. But I am also thinking about maybe looking into copywriting, but idk....

My mom never gets it.

My mom never gets it. I have a stutter all my life. My mom keeps saying I should watch The King's Speech. Yeah, I watched it. But it is NOT the basis for every stutterer to stop stuttering. Never. No...

I thriving there despite my stutter (third yr this fall and still going strong). You can do it too! You just have to believe in yourself and focus on your career goals😊...

Yeah but if there are two candidates and they are totally equal, except candidate A stutters while candidate B speaks normally. Isn't it fair to pick B for the employer? I think it is. I'm a stutterer...

The best thing you can do is to disclose your stuttering at the beginning of the interview. Doing this will eliminate the fears of if and when they find out....

On a scale of 1-5 of how bad that Stuttering is, I would say like 3.8 but I honestly don't mind it. Like I've already accepted I will Stutter most times so I've kinda just stopped trying to force myse...

How severe is your stutter? I stutter on my name, so if I introduce myself I will stutter, but then I’m mostly fluent the rest of my intro. At this point, I’m generally mild but can get to moderate in...

Interview tips

Interview tips Hi guys, I finally got over my fear and I got an interview for a summer job in a grocery store. The manager called me yesterday to ask me a few questions he wanted to ask me before the ...

Does Stuttering affect your chances in getting a job

Does Stuttering affect your chances in getting a job I just did an introduction video for a job I am applying to and I am so nervous about it. It made sure to notify them that I was a Stutterer but I ...

Ineteresting write up man, sorry to hear about everything that happened in your past... Cool that you enjoy music and guitar man. What kind of music do you like? I'm a huge fan of Rock, Blues, etc. Di...

Great reply, and no not yet, its in a few days, thank you for the detailed reply, glad your enjoying it/ found a way around it. Blessings :)...

Hopefully you haven’t already had the interview, it’s going great actually. Now that I have my set phrases, it’s a whole lot easier for me to approach my tables w a kind of relaxed vibe and I don’t r...

Yes. Real and lasting improvement with my therapy. I went from being severe stutterer to people who I work with not knowing that I stutter. I interact in meetings. I provide training to classes of new...

My grandad who is also a severe stutterer got his PhD from Cornell. He was nervous about it but he said he just plowed through anyway. He also went back to speech therapy when he started college, whic...

I feel you, I'm in the same boat. Generally there are employers out there who are understanding and are willing to look past the issue. The only way i was able to land a good job was through doing int...

What would the rage do? Was I gonna be one of those people that tries to crawl through the little window and fight the staff? It just made me resolve to keep doing it. Another similar story but ...

I have a moderate to severe stutter and I actually work for a software startup doing sales. I make 50+ cold calls a day and believe it or not but this has helped me get become more confident and com...

Making phone calls and seeing new doctors. Both tasks make me so anxious because I’m used to being put on the spot, so they make my stuttering get worse. For example, I’ve been putting off finding a ...

TLDR; Yes, anger gets your brain out of the way and the words tend to just flow. I'm almost 40 and yes, over the years, getting angry was the first point where speaking to someone I didn't know was c...

Saying my phone number and getting it wrong because I repeated a digit that I didn't mean to repeat. Phone interviews. Especially when I try to answer the question, but no words come out and the int...