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No, in the US there are not these kind of elaborate social rules. My God, that must be very difficult. I do not even stutter and I don't know what I'd do living there with these social expectations....

Well it's not like they'd put me in jail for not saying goodbye. The problem is, everyone else does it and people kinda expect you to do the same for the sake of being polite. I don't want people to ...

Yeah, it seems weird. But I figured you shouldn't have to be uncomfortable. If there's no chance of getting words out, you should be allowed another option, yeah?...

Yes, most of my close friends know I stutter, and I don't really have much trouble hanging out with them. But it's impossible to only hang out with the same people for the rest of your life, and most...

Don't the people around you know you stutter? Could you reduce your farewell to e.g. just waving?...

I usually just blankly tell them I have a stutter, let them feel shitty. ...

> then when they ask me my name and I block I get a lot of shitty responses What do you say back to them? ...

That's very cool! Stuttering is definitely a bigger deal to us than it is to people around us. ...

"Being good enough that I can tell people to fuck off" is basically my guiding life principle wrt stuttering. ...

Political consultant. I get by thanks to years of speech therapy when I was younger, and being good enough at my job that can tell people to fuck off....

This. I'm lucky enough to have worked through a lot of my self esteem issues with my speech impediment and am quite open to talking about it and educating people. I hate the word stutter also. No just...

That's too bad. But I figure stutter is poorly understood in most places. I guess we just have to keep informing people....

The first thing i write in an application is that i stutter, they either gonna just not respond because you stutter or they think and see that you keep it real and that you are confidend, people value...

Call or email them and let them know of your stutter. If they're any amount of compassionate, it'll help you in the long run. Might even get you that job....

Yeah, I was thinking you could call back too. And this time say upfront that you have a stutter and that you'd like an in-person interview. I don't think there's anything wrong with saying "it's a m...

> One thing I would suggest, though - when you start to get nervous and stutter on the phone, don't be afraid to interrupt yourself mid-stutter and explain to them that you have a stutter and how s...

I too recently went through a job search. It sucks. Phone interviews are the worst, and I'm pretty sure I lost a couple good opportunities because the dumb person on the other side of the line didn't ...

for me I only bring up the fact that I stutter if someone comments on it or imitates it or sometimes even ask "are you OK?" or they'll sometimes think Im drunk lol, then I'll just tell them "No, I'm f...

Value teacher office hours. Utilizing personal time interacting with my teachers made the classroom experience a lot less intimidating, and through them, I felt more comfortable overall in that enviro...

>Ever since, I've never brought it up and talk as little as possible. Of course that's what this would make most of us want to do. But....well, it sounds like maybe you already know it's leading ...