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Software developer. It did seem like he genuinely didn't understand what a stutter is though despite me explaining it several times. He thought I was bad at speaking and needed to work on it....

Yeah my work is remote and I use this trick every time I speak. It's annoying cause when work was in person my boss would always say I need to work on fixing my stutter and now that it's gone (it's no...

I got hired on as a people greeter at Walmart, that's actually what cured me of my stutter, I went into a deep depression and stayed inside of my house for years when I was young, my stutter got so ba...

What makes you think they lose interest when you talk? If they just look away when you stutter it could be because they want to take some of the pressure off of you or they might just not know what to...

Fedex delivery driver. A lot more talking situations that you’d think. I love it though. The harder I try and hide it the worse I fail. The catch22 of stuttering…...

day camp counselor. obviously i’m communicating with lots of people every day (especially kids). i don’t usually stutter when i’m in counselor mode but when i do in casual convo, i’ve had a couple kid...

I’m 17 and working in retail. I talk to customers, as well as my coworkers (in person or over headset) every time I’m at work. It can be frustrating sometimes but I manage....

Polymer lab tech. Im fortunate that a lot of my job is working by myself in my fume hood or writing lab reports. I have very few coworkers as well (really small company) and dont have to speak that mu...

International Affairs Support Officer. I work for my local council and attend a few meetings a week and research and administrate several projects. I also help to fill in the Mayors diary! Talking dur...

I’m in outside sales, going on year 6 in the construction/ steel fabrication. I always laugh, because when I took the job I hated doing two things: talking on the phone and driving long distance. Havi...

I privately tutor prople for living (individuall or in large groups). It's something that largely helped me with the issue and thankfuly I am quite extroverted so that helps me too. But yeah, during ...

I’m trained as a speech therapist, but have a verbal offer from a neurodiagnostic company to do EEG work, with plans to eventually move me to the OR for intraoperative neuromonitoring, which is a lot ...

Yes, I agree! I’ve had a job for 3 years where I would need to communicate with customers and suppliers often and at first I was DREADING making phone calls. But as time went on I would rather call th...

I'm in IT. In the beginning I didn't deal with it too well. I am in a cubicle setting and I used to go out of the room and outside to make any work calls because I was afraid to make calls in front...

Hi. Was in the same situation you are not too long ago. Quick and simple. Dating: Tinder. Friends: Join a hiking/rowing/jogging club. Here you can get to know people while forming a bond by doing ...

I'm a mental health specialist, sometimes my clients ask me why I can't talk correctly but I just tell them I have a speech impediment and 9 times out of 10 they're actually really sweet about it. Luc...

I'm currently helping in the kitchen of a restaurant as a short-term summer job, but I'm mainly an intern in my uni's web and marketing unit, and my job is to translate and localize websites from Span...

Medical doctor. As you can guess, lots of talking with patients and families, meetings, presentations, etc. I always stutter but I stutter with all the confidence in the world and it has gotten me thi...

Yes, exactly! I think this happens because you’re more relaxed and confident when you get used to people you work with (friendly environment helps greatly, obviously)And you basically learn all the mo...

Software engineer. We do have a lot of meetings etc but everyone at my work is very accommodating. I just write what i have to say in chat. Not really dealing with it but got no other choice....