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I got fired for stuttering to a customer. 😑

I got fired for stuttering to a customer. 😑 I would understand if it affected my job performance, but I'm not even in customer service or anything like that. I work part-time as a janitor and a cus...

Becoming Our Own Best Advocate (Podcast episode)

Becoming Our Own Best Advocate (Podcast episode) Stutter with Confidence #61 with Anita Blom Becoming Our Own Best Advocate I really enjoyed this conversation with Swedish support group leader Anit...

No, but I did have a conversation with my Communications professor and he understood. He allowed me to modify my oral speeches significantly. I did have to turn in paper from a medical professional, ...

Stutter is a neuromuscular disorder that can lead to abnormal speech fluency and can cause stloads of failures of interviews and relationships, in addition to normal communications of daily life. Why ...

Ask them if fluency is part of the evaluation. Explain your speech disability to them and see if any accommodations can be made for you....

If you've honestly given up, learn sign language and call it a day. I struggled with minor tongue paralysis as a child and there is nothing more frustrating than the lack of communication, you are abs...

Something can definitely be done about it. Stuttering is classified under a disability, meaning this could very easily go under discrimination. Their is no reason you should be forced to fail because ...

I know from myself I have a lot of pride and don’t like to talk the teacher and make things easier by asking for accommodations, but sometimes you have to. I’ve only had one professor give me a hard t...

It’s a standard external curriculum. I don’t know if there’s anything that can be done about it. Hopefully the examiner is understanding but idk. I used to have that kind of stuff for a learning di...

The system didnt care when I waa going thru this in the late 90s and early 2000s. It's a shame our disability is not taken seriously....

This is fucking infuriating. Does your teacher know you have a speech impediment? If he does and he is still choosing to grade you on a time frame/fluency that is beyond fucked up, and you can talk to...

Make sure you also have academic accommodations for time while presenting and speaking up in class, as stuttering is a disability....

To all of you: there is nothing wrong with you. There is nothing you need to "fix". Stuttering is a disability and there is no cure. Accepting yourself for who you are is hard, of course, when you are...

That in itself is an accomodation though. I do get what you're saying though. I think it depend on the severity....

Something you could start right now...with not very much IT skill is being an IT contractor on Upwork (or a similar site). You can even start getting IT jobs with just basic HTML editing skills. (Thos...

Interviews are not nightmares and you gotta bear it in mind. Just say what you want to say and don't cork yourself up bc you stutter. Actually you can try self-closure which advices you to claim stut...

As a note, I declared my stutter beforehand as "other disabilities" on the pre-interview form. I think it helped because it took the weight off my shoulders, and also prevented them from assuming it ...

Birth defect like ADHD,ADD. Luckily ADHD can claim disability but stuttering can't....

Love this post, because I've recently had this revelation too. I never used to view my stutter as a disability, but after looking at the national stammerer association in the uk, I noticed they consid...

I work as a Disability support worker. I had no idea stuttering could be a Disability until I saw this post. I've been in my work for 10 years now and have always managed. I have a mild stutter but I ...