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It doesn’t really matter what you consider for yourself, according to DSM-5 stuttering is a disability. People can literally lose their legs and think it’s not a disability because they’ve internalize...

It can be. I got it recognised as a disability in Spain by proving the psychological and social issues it entails. I don't think stuttering is "enough" but if you can prove what it does to you it then...

To be a disability legally it doesn’t mean you can’t do something entirely necessarily. It means you are substantially impaired from one of the basic functions in life. One of which is speaking. For l...

Legally it IS classified as a disability. It qualifies for disability rights and accommodations under laws like Australia's Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act...

She had a pre-drafted template for stutterers, but I was asked if I wanted to input anything. You can ask your teachers to give you a sly hint that they're going to call on you, like a tap on the shou...

can you get a letter with a different content like "after you cold call this student, wait for at least 10 seconds" i ask because i'm wondering if the letter content is something that you can decide ...

let's go through what's the worst that could happen. if they know you have stutter, they should wait more, not less, for your speaking on the fly. unfortunately, some people do the opposite and they ...

My school's disability resource center wrote me a letter to send to all my teachers. It explicitly said "do not cold call this student", meaning don't randomly call on me in class. Most of my teache...

longer speaking time is a reasonable accommodation for us. ignorant teachers and bad parents do the opposite by waiting for us even less than others. they should be notified of our disability, and if ...

For this reason you should always have IEP in place and in college have disability on file. Now if the teacher did that if the paperwork was there, I’d make sure they get fired from their job. ...

Pushing you outside of your comfort zone is totally valid, but banning someone from participating in class because of a disability is textbook discrimination. Too far...

I stutter like a motherfucker in all my work meetings but I persist, because regardless of our disability, we have just as much of a right to present as anyone else....

Really proud of you, were no different than anyone and housing get overlooked because of something that's not our fault...

I don’t know much about your degrees, but is there any way you can pivot to tech? Lots of remote work in tech and b to b, and the culture is inclusive, lot of neurodiverse people who have carved the w...

Yes. If it makes me selfish to want to make a actual disability to be perceived as a disability that is is then sure. Bunch of weirdos in this sub....

I don’t want laws in place. I don’t want to have a legal disability. It would hamper my life/job. I prefer to go through life pretending I don’t stutter- I haven’t had any real issues come up by doing...

society has shortchanged us

society has shortchanged us I really starting to feel this way, especially after browsing this subreddit, and reading all the words of pain and anguish. I always just dealt with stutter in my own wa...

I can't help but notice that you are a very capable person, intelligent, and have a lot of potential. Look what you've been able to accomplish despite your struggles with speaking. You are close to gr...

for your next job, don't run away. either ask for accommodation and then get fired and then sue them. or ask for it and get it and continue working there. and since you're suicidal, you need to talk ...

I get what you mean, frankly I’m glad it’s not seen as any other disability. I don’t want people to see me as disabled I don’t want special treatment. I could do everything anyone else could do. Mayb...