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Hi! I’m a physical therapist who stutters! I did have some trouble with my clinical experiences, but I’m a superb PT and it hasn’t ever been an issue in patient care. You should be protected by the ...

I took it, and I got an 8 I think (and I was stammering a lot). But at some point, I did explain my problem to the interviewer (sort of made a joke) and it honestly went fine. As long as you express y...

Any nurses, doctors, pre-health professionals on here that failed their clinical checkouts due to their stuttering?

Any nurses, doctors, pre-health professionals on here that failed their clinical checkouts due to their stuttering? For my health programs lab checkouts, we pick a random faced-down scenario and are a...

It's kind of another world. You're in a place with 700 other people who stutter or know about stuttering. It's the only time in your life where you are the majority and stuttering is normal. There are...

I won’t let my stutter take control over me.

I won’t let my stutter take control over me. I’m 28 and seeking a job. I have no one to stay with me and listen to my suffering. But I won’t put the burden of this stuttering on others. Because there ...

Wanted to share a job interview tip

Wanted to share a job interview tip I've always struggled in job interviews (it's needless to say why). I had one today and did some quick thinking on the fly to kind of address it to the interviewer ...

Hey man, I'm a medical student with a moderate stutter. Get's worse in high stress social situations. What kind of advice could you give to a medical student with a stutterer, especially in the conte...

28 year old doctor here with a moderate stutter. Still have my stutter. My advice, as a stutterer, would be to accept it and live with it. There is no cure, that’s something you should accept early o...

This has happened to me at almost every job I've had. I'm not taken seriously because of my stutter, and it stinks. It really keeps us from doing things like standing up for ourselves because of the r...

I feel ya. Best thing for my confidence is to strive for success in every other aspect of my life. ...

Same, really. I remember feeling such shame over it. I was taking speech therapy when I was around 18 years old, and I remember lying to my speech therapist about doing my speech therapy homework wi...

At My Breaking Point

At My Breaking Point Hi everybody! After finding this subreddit earlier and reading some posts I've decided to create an appropriately named throwaway account and post how I'm feeling living with my s...

Great post! As a lifelong stutterer who is now going in to the job search and interviewing process (and anxious as hell about it), this story helped put things in perspective. ...

To echo everybody else in this thread: Thank you for sharing, and I'm sure we all connect with that feeling of loneliness and self-isolation. I'm 34, I don't remember *not* stuttering, although in tr...

yes, i had suicidal thoughts. but insteas of kill me i just isolated, and restarted on the next day, its being 6 years......

I had a bad period when I first moved from China to Canada. My family is the reason why I got stutter in the first place (father was absent from the start, mother was mentally unstable and a stutter h...

Lol you would x10 that for ineffective speech therapy. 2k for a lifetime of controlled speech, freaking bargain considering how much money I know earn because of my speech. ...

I had the exact same thing happen to me last week. One of the HR persons called out of the blue and asked me a few additional questions and I could barely get any words out and I was embarrassed beyon...

That's really good! This up coming month I am moving and need to start applying for new jobs. The interview process is what's making me dread it because of my stutter. So thanks for sharing and giving...

Botched my phone interview, yet they still moved me forward.

Botched my phone interview, yet they still moved me forward. Last week I had a phone interview as I am looking for work despite my stuttering being at its worst in years. The recruiter called me and ...