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As a stutterer, should I click "yes" when prompted in job applications asking if I have a disability covered under the ADA?

As a stutterer, should I click "yes" when prompted in job applications asking if I have a disability covered under the ADA? Stupid question with most likely an obvious answer? Yes. But I have never be...

Role play. In my career a lot of the training is geared around role play, which is video taped for review. yes it's daunting if not terrifying. When it came to interviews for internal posts or promoti...

Do you have any interview tips for a premed? I was rejected last year as I bombed the interview. I'm a very shy person (obviously as I stutter) and they basically told me my answers came off superfici...

Same here. I used to work at a call center and I stutter. I'm more comfortable speaking on the phone rather than f2f even now....

Nope. I used to be deathly afraid of phones. But then I practiced speaking on phones in speech therapy and it has helped more than I can explain. Speaking on the phone is now part of my job and I fee...

Well good for her. Doing what she wanted to do. It took me a while to lift the self imposed barrier a stutter creates eventually I became a cop so why I'd choose a career where you routinely audio/vid...

Wouldn't like someone in a casual setting filling my words, someone I talk to one the street or whatever. In a work setting however, I do prefer people filling me in, because getting on with a task fa...

You'll be great! I stutter and have worked in retail for years. It's not as scary as you'd think. A few things to keep in mind: It's your turf. Yes, you have to help people, but don't forget that yo...

Can I get some advice/encouragement on starting my new retail job? Nervous that I'll embarrass myself or the company when speaking to customers.

Can I get some advice/encouragement on starting my new retail job? Nervous that I'll embarrass myself or the company when speaking to customers. ...

Finding opportunities to disclose the stutter

Finding opportunities to disclose the stutter Hello again everybody! This is my 2nd post on this reddit and I just want to say that it really is great to have a place where all of us can discuss our s...

I couldn't read out of books either in middle school and would get made fun of constantly (this was when billy madison out - ttttt today junior!) so it was....not fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Hi there, life long stutterer here in my 40s now. Never really went to speech therapy except for the useless public school sessions. I never concentrated on making my speech fluent. My stuttering isn’...

A good amount of us are also physically disabled so that puts the whole "be Adonis" suggestion off, but the rest of this is solid advice, if not a teensy bit oversimplifying ...

When i met my "longest" ex i was 18 yo. We just met at some party (not like club, just friend of a friend) and it was smooth from the beginning. My wife and i met at work(i was 20 at the time), i own...

This applies to so much more. Getting a job, making new friends, gaining the confidence to just go out and do whatever you want. This all helps in mitigating your stutter and making it less of a foc...

Hello, i was a librarian at a major engineering school and at a symposium I saw a famous teacher and engineer stuttering openly (more than me). ...

:(. I know some people who stutter and work as doctors and nurses, but all of them in the US or UK. There's been a few posts asking about enterting the medical field with a stutter. Maybe you can sear...

Sadly that's a privilege mostly for developed countries, we don't have such facilities. When I told one of the Head of Department about my stammer before exams, she called me out on asking for "prefer...

I graduated with an Industrial Engineering degree 20 years ago. I did engineering work out of college and ended up in the software development field. Started my own company 9 years ago and now employ/...

I'm a Geologist who stutters who also works at acivil engineering firm and everything everyone else has written below is true. While it may take longer than usual to explain things while talking to yo...