postr/StutterApril 23, 2025

My stutter makes me feel so helpless and incapable during interviews

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My stutter makes me feel so helpless and incapable during interviews I’ve had jobs in the past and what not but it feels so incredibly soul-crushing to be in an interview and be stuttering so much to the point where I’m just sitting there unable to get a single word out without feeling so helpless and defeated. Like if I didn’t have a stutter, then I would feel much more confident and capable. Even when I’m practicing, it gets to a point where I can’t even practice without stuttering and at that point I’m like what is even the point, because I feel like it holds me back so much. I know that recruiters aren’t supposed to be biased against people with disabilities, but with stuttering, I mean how could you not? And then, let’s say its a 30 min interview and you have to get through a certain set of questions. Most of the time, that doesn’t even happen for me because it takes SO LONG to answer like two questions that time has run out to continue the rest. It’s just interviews are such bullshit with a stutter. If I can’t get employed with my stuttering then there is no hope to get employed period and makes me feel so frustrated and angry all the time. No one really understands what it’s like unless you’re in the same position.

Themes

Emotional ExperienceSchool & WorkSpeech & Stuttering

Subthemes

Helplessness & AgencyEmployment & CareerFrustration & AngerAnxiety & Social JudgmentLoss of Control