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Looking for a mentor

Looking for a mentor Dear friends, So I’ll soon be graduating university and entering the “real world”. I have a summer internship at a big company soon and would love to have someone I can talk to/as...

Work at a more labor intensive job then. I worked procedure for a grocery store, didn’t have to talk as much. Or cashier where all you have to say is hi how are you then scan items. Vs your current jo...

Change jobs bro. Try doing manual labor jobs that arent so heavy. You don't have to deal with people. You can deal with ppl who can get in trouble if they give you shit lol...

Dude. F them. You will always work around assholes, but this is more extreme. If it’s that degrading and you tried communicating that’s it’s destructive, take it up the manager chain as fair as ...

You gotta find a new job man. If you're working at McDonalds, you can work literally ANYWHERE else. Also, check out Lee Lovett's book on stutter. It's helping me and teaching me a lot about how our mi...

I hate where I work

I hate where I work I hate McDonald’s so much ( I do it with college btw) . So many customers laugh at me while I really struggle to talk. ( I do the front areas so clean tables etc. ) and then you g...

College freshman here. I’m pursuing an MD/PhD and my stutter is more on the severe end but no one told me I can’t do it because of my stutter. If there’s a career you want, you work your butt off to g...

I started college as a computer science major and then accounting, thinking I wouldn’t have to talk to people much. I ended up with degrees in psychology and counseling psychology. I was a social work...

Doing what you like with a stutter

Doing what you like with a stutter I’m a 23M college student and currently doing music Ed which I want to switch out of because I don’t feel like if teaching is for me. I have an interest in music the...

There are tons of people who stutter in college. People in college are mature and know what stuttering is, at least in North America. For most of us, the biggest thing that's holding us back is oursel...

Work as a senior engineer in tech (one of the big tech companies ) I actually love my stutter as I feel it makes me who I am. I've also found that I am much more aware of my blocks than work colleag...

I’m an Assistant Sales Manager, I manage a about 10 people on sales pitches, marketing, and individual performance, a big part of my job is customer service which can get difficult sometimes with a st...

I’m a dental office receptionist. I’ve only had two people be rude about it, but for the most part people are understanding and don’t mind it. I like my job since it’s a family practice so it’s only t...

I work at Costco, used to be a warehouse manager and a trainer at a gym called 9Round. Recently finished a coding boot camp and am now looking for work as a web developer. I talk to people plenty, e...

I worked at the Apple Store for 3 years and every now and then I would stutter. Most people never said anything and those that did were mostly clueless as to it being a stutter and just a random slip ...

Brother. Your stutter doesn't define you. What you think of it, does. Remember that it's a part of you, not the full picture. It will get better with time and you will find people that love you, and y...

first of all, please don't apologize. your commitment gives the rest of us moments of purpose to give back to something we also know intimately and makes us us. secondly, i'm happy for you that you'v...

Reading that felt like reading a recollection of my own highschool experience and I'm not sure if you're looking for support with this post but I can say it definitely get's better. Since getting to c...

Tired of being bullied

Tired of being bullied I’m sick of being bullied. I’m a 15 year old boy in high school, and I’m being bullied constantly for my stutter. There’s one guy in particular who started first, he’s a senior ...

Thank you! It’s just some part time job that I was interested in mostly because I wanted to get more comfortable with the language....