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I can relate as well. My current job, my department consists of two people, myself and my supervisor. My supervisor got cancer and went out on disability for 17 months. I was thrust into his positi...

My parents bought an ice cream store when i was 14 (in 1980; am 59m). I had developed a horrible stutter in 3rd grade that had morphed (mostly, though I still stuttered) into a dreadful block by the ...

As a person who stutters, I can definitely relate to this. It is a real shame how much effort we put into our career only for it to seem to take five steps backwards due to something we can't control....

Wondering if I am getting discriminated during hiring process due to stutter

Wondering if I am getting discriminated during hiring process due to stutter I work as a Product Manager for software products and been in the job market for almost 1.5 yr now. There have been 10+ ins...

Forced exposure therapy. Put myself in different work positions, and high ed situations that forced myself into social interactions. Which has been helping significantly....

I wish. I would be so much further in life. Let the stutter plague my progression (career wise) for too many years. Finally gripped life by the throat almost a year ago now, and haven’t let go since....

Exposure therapy, my friend. I’ve gotten heavily into the medical field lately (nursing school & taking different workforce programs- Phlebotomy,CNA, EMT, etc) that all forced me into social interac...

i'm only 21, but i've always had a job since i was 15 and they've all been customer facing roles. sometimes it's a bit difficult but it's fine 95% of the time as most of what you have to say to each c...

I worked as a cashier at an amusement park in high school (god, that was a long time ago!). I don’t remember having many issues with my stutter, not sure I needed to talk much at all. Just say hello...

I work at Woolworths (arguably the biggest supermarket in Australia) in customer service, so on the checkouts. My experience has been overall good, you can still provide good customer service even wit...

I used to work at a movie theater, so I did like concessions, selling tickets, and ticket checker. I will say that customer service is really autopilot work, it may be a little difficult at the beginn...

Great story!! That helps us to continue in order to achieve our goals, I'm a photographer and I really know how hard can be to be recognised......

Has anyone worked as a cashier

Has anyone worked as a cashier I got a job at Kiwi, ill be doing the whole kiwi thing but its the cashier work stressing me. Am even stressed that ill get it in the first place. If you worked at a cas...

I’d suggest a kitchen job would be fun. You can lock in on your prep work. Learn some cooking skills and you’re not required to communicate at all with guests....

You don’t know how much this means to me! I’m always wanting to pursue law but I feel like my stutter is going to hold me back. Thank you for inspiring me....

Great to hear your story. I don’t have any Toastmasters experience but I do speak weekly in a school assembly in front of ≈ 150 people. The more I do it, the better I become (in my opinion, at least!)...

I haven't done Toastmasters. My job has gone from talking to 4 people a few times a week to frequently to presenting to up to 40 people. I still stutter and it varies a lot based on different days b...

You build "brain power" by working on the speech mechanics. Ever since I started doing self-therapy, mostly in the form of practicing fluent speech techniques with an AI, my mental capacity for other ...

The reality is that only a select few researchers are really getting to the heart of what's going on in the brain in stuttering. Most of the stuttering world is confusing stuttering as a speech disord...

Research on how to increase brain power instead of speech mechanics only.

Research on how to increase brain power instead of speech mechanics only. As someone who stutters and has spent time deeply reflecting on it, I’ve come to a different perspective. Most treatments toda...