Vent: I wish more careers/jobs didn’t require speaking
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Vent: I wish more careers/jobs didn’t require speaking Title says it all. I wish more careers and jobs didn’t require speaking as much as they do. My stutter has been getting worse lately and getting tongue tied at work is downright embarrassing. Literally no one else deals with this issue. Since I work a desk job, I can kind of speak more fluently if I write down a general script of what I’m going to say. But literally no one else has to “hack it” like I do. It’s even worse when it’s a slight habitual stutter and when no one else wants to work the high communication jobs, you get stuck with working it. It’s bad enough that genetics are stacked up against me as both my mom and dad grew up stuttering, and it makes me feel worse when my mom mocks my dad’s stutter (as if she didn’t grow up with a stutter herself). My sibling doesn’t stutter but has ADHD and will very frequently interrupt me mid-sentence to blurt out what they have to say, which will just make my confidence in speaking deplete even more. I wish that the service industry in my area wasn’t so prominent. I always get sucked into the highest communication jobs there are because “I’m so good with people.” I do actually love helping people and solving their problems but not having a competent tongue really makes me feel like I can’t do anything to help anyone. I’m literally debating getting a job at a warehouse to escape the feeling of my stutter being on full blast.