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Let the US government understand this and help us with partial disability benefits as we all guys went thru emotional turmoil of this stutter majority of our life involving a peak stress between age 2...

I did the exact same thing. I knew I needed to take public speaking so decided to take it last year when I knew for sure it would be online thinking it would help my fear, and surprise it did not. Per...

Discounts in public transportation and vehicle/home aquisition, tax relieves and most importantly, the ability to apply to job centers for disabled people (which will help you get a job according to y...

I'm also expecting China Disabled Persons’ Federation to legitimate stutter to be a disability and they can offer reasonable accommodations and settings for PWS. Stutter is not induced from PWS's timi...

I don't have severe stutter but I do from time to time and do my best to speak without stuttering a lot. I didn't know it was considered a disability until I read this post. Probably because I have ne...

When I worked in the civil service in the UK my stammer was quite severe. I applied for a job within the second and said I had a disability which got me a guaranteed interview (I got the job). I thi...

Social Security classifies stuttering as a disability to collect SSI money. So technically we are disabled by definition. If you can't talk, you can't work. Some people have it worse than others and w...

I had this realization in college when I was required to take a public speaking course for my degree. A friend of mine recommended I speak with the university's Student Disability Services office, and...

100% it is most certainty a disability, " Stuttering is the only handicap people still laugh at" - Joe Biden I've always wondered why that was. Why people overlooked it as a disability. I have my the...

Stuttering IS a disability! I suffer everyday, I work as a cashier at a grocery store and I try my best but it's really embarrassing. How does one get disability for their stuttering ? My blocks are r...

Yes it is. In Spain it is not enough to get you a disability certificate though. You have to prove the psychological and social damage it usually entails. Fortunately I got it recognised and I am sl...

"A disability is an impairment that significantly impacts a major life activity. The ADA includes “speaking” and “communication” as a major life activities. So, if the stutter significantly affects on...

Luckily, stutter is a 'mutable disability', not like other disabilities, deaf, blind and etc. They are never mutable according to the disabled's mental activities and at least we can somehow control s...

Japan has already legitimated stutter to be a disability and PWS can petition to the pensions and walfares from stutter. Nowadays the awarenesses of stutter being eventually a disability like deaf, bl...

Yea I do consider myself disabled, I often wonder what life would be like I did not stutter. Despite this I've accepted my stutter and tried to make the best of it. >there are many everyday things...

I heard in some places, stuttering is considered as a disability (or say differently-abled?) and they get the same benefits as a disabled person. I consider my stuttering as a disability, yes. Becaus...

I totally agree with you. I think stutter must be categorized into the disabilities since it's a recurring and untreatable handicap for the time being. So I can't figure out why stutter is not a disab...

Stuttering is a disability.

Stuttering is a disability. My opinion of myself changed for the better when I started thinking of myself as someone with a disability. Before, I thought of myself as an embarrassment because I couldn...

First...Stuttering is becoming recognized as a disability by many countries. I have never considered myself disabled because of my stutter. I was a severe stutterer. It's not stuttering that's a fa...

So having a stutter is not common, it is 1% of the population. Also by the looks of the text from OP it appears they likely are one of the stutterers who have social anxiety which is common - I believ...