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Stuttering is undoubtedly a disability. Life is always an uphill battle with stuttering. Some people’s challenges are harder than others. Find it in yourself to push yourself through to the end!...

I wanted to pull myself for more conversations with strangers (like buying smth in non-supermarket shop, when i have to say what i want, or go to the restaurant and order smth) but like you say, its e...

I know the pain, its not fun. I constantly finding myself thinking about situations and how I would react to them if I didn’t stutter. For example, I was thinking about how a parcel was left at a ne...

Zero impact? That’s hilarious. Every minute of every day I have to predict, evaluate and analyze every word just to try to have a normal life. Stuttering impacts everything I do, be it good or bad....

People don't usually have the patience to talk to me for very long, and sometimes they feel uncomfortable, but most of my friends and acquaintances seem to like me okay. I seriously go out of my way...

If you can't speak you can't socialize regardless of how otherwise normal, interesting, intelligent, good looking, or funny you might be. No one cares. Socializing is based on speaking. I have a gre...

I actually got disability money for it when it was at its worse. A psychiatrist employed by the government agreed that stuttering hindered my chances of finding employment and gave me money for it so ...

LMAO SAME. Every haircut it's super awkward because I either sit there in silence or say one word answers that hopefully don't make me stutter. They must think I'm unfriendly or something but what can...

I had a job where I answered the phone a lot and callers would say this to me on EVERY call. I would always make a joke, like, “must be Monday morning, haha.” Interestingly, I changed jobs to one wher...

Good for you but Please get off that high horse. Stutter does prevent a lot of people from a lot of stuff. It is a disability when you're not just delayed but sometimes can't say a single word for min...

Why is stuttering the one disability it's still okay to mock?

Why is stuttering the one disability it's still okay to mock? Someone had mentioned on my last post that a lot of people are more accepting of and exposed to disabilities now, but I really think stutt...

It's almost comedic to me: when I was a kid, I didn't like ketchup or mustard or tomatoes. But I would eat them anyways if they put it on my burgers because I couldn't talk. 25 years later, I've learn...

That’s me, too. I developed a fairly strong stutter in my 40s after a brain injury. I couldn’t do my job (corporate training) anymore, traveling is awful (you’re asked so many questions!), and just so...

I went to the grocery store today and didn’t buy avocados because I couldn’t find them and I was too much of a little bitch to try to speak. Feel free to use that riveting daily situation in your stor...

I really appreciated the portrayal of the main character's stutter in Stephen King's IT. It's just... there. There's a moment at the end where he makes a big speech before the third act and his friend...

Shopping

Shopping I don’t know if anyone gets this but going to the shops to get food in is horrible. Even when I know I don’t need to speak to anyone, I still feel like everyone’s watching me. I was walking ...

This sort of sentiment seems to leave out the people for whom stuttering (blocks) have impeded their ability to comfortably perform daily tasks. People who *truly are* unable to express their though...

I understand what you mean. Stuttering is hard to understand for us, much less for kids and even adults. My son is young and he was naturally curious and even thought it was funny when he was 4-5. He ...

I don't really like situations like that either. I remind myself that they probably aren't even paying attention to me at all and they probably don't actually hear a word I'm saying. And if they do he...

I’m with ChipRaps. I tried to push myself beyond my comfort zone for years, and all I achieved was an ever lower level of confidence, and the feeling I was completely incompetent at basically everyth...