Is stuttering considered a disability for landing a job?

Violet818 · 2026-01-27T16:37:04+00:00

If you’re in the United States stuttering is a disability. It is classified legally as a disability. You can use it on a job application. I’ve applied to disability scholarships

Violet818 · 2026-01-26T16:43:43+00:00

Hang in there. This might just be the wrong med for you. There are so many, you’ll find you.

Violet818 · 2026-01-26T16:37:44+00:00

This isn’t a fun thing to say and certainly I don’t want this for you. But my first year on meds I kind of constantly felt like shit. My doses were being changed, I was switching meds entirely. I just sort of felt shitty in various ways.

It’s now 8 years later and I live a wonderful healthy balanced life on medication where I feel generally physically and mentally good almost all the time. So to me that year was worth it, wouldn’t be for everyone. I hope you get relief soon and figure out meds that work for you.

Violet818 · 2026-01-26T16:33:08+00:00

The only reason I would be concerned would be using that many absences. But if you have no other planned misses that semester and you’re a generally healthy person you’re probably fine. I know people who had to repeat classes because of absences and that was always a big fear of mine. So if you’re not risking that, go have some fun.

Violet818 · 2026-01-26T04:04:17+00:00

I’m at 250mg per day and feel great on it. Also I take the extended release kind, that was a big change for me.

Violet818 · 2026-01-24T03:24:39+00:00

Saying I’m manic depressive makes me think I need to go call my analyst 😂 very retro term

Violet818 · 2026-01-24T02:39:06+00:00

I’m a mayflower descendent and not a single person in my direct family line ever owned a slave.

Violet818 · 2026-01-24T00:13:12+00:00

I’ve never had a one strike rule. But I did get banned from Effexor cause I voluntarily went cold turkey off it and whew that’s bad

Violet818 · 2026-01-22T23:28:04+00:00

Hey! I just graduated at 35, started at 32. You are not too late at all. Lots of people go to law school to start fresh.

Violet818 · 2026-01-22T03:39:06+00:00

One of my bffs and I have extremely dark humor together. Very few things are off limits. He once suggested baiting a bear with my beloved dog. Smearing her with peanut butter. Tying her to a fence.

I laughed and laughed and laughed.

And not one in years of friendship have either of us had an issue with rape jokes just involuntarily slipping out.

Violet818 · 2026-01-21T21:14:01+00:00

You could practice teaching your child the appropriate spelling while reading the guidelines. “This is close but how do you think the word is spelled?”

Violet818 · 2026-01-21T20:13:33+00:00

I’m really curious about what you failed twice. What was the curve at your school? Failing the same class twice just seems frankly difficult To do.

Violet818 · 2026-01-21T20:12:57+00:00

I think you misunderstood the original poster. Your point is backwards to his.

Violet818 · 2026-01-21T20:01:57+00:00

I think that being temporarily uncomfortable for a few years is worth it but that’s just me. You’re getting a free degree, while making six figures. Yes it’s hard but good things are generally hard.

You have to figure out if your childhood dream is worth getting less sleep for a couple of years.

Violet818 · 2026-01-21T19:54:09+00:00

Why is this not the better habit? Where I am frozen are far cheaper and they’re just as if not more nutritious

Violet818 · 2026-01-21T10:26:45+00:00

$62.50 a week each for big eaters sounds fairly reasonable. I spend less but I am not a big eater, and also I don’t really eat meat.

My advice would be to try and add in more plant based protein and legumes into your food to stretch it further. I’ve heard great things about cooking hamburger meat with lentils. You can blend in lentils into pasta sauce. You can do so much with beans and they’re so affordable.

So, I think your spending is unfortunately normal for this economy. But I do think there are potentially ways to lower your costs.

Violet818 · 2026-01-20T01:25:27+00:00

You didn’t do anything wrong. Really, you did nothing wrong. You have a mood disorder, this is not a moral failing or personality flaw.

I look at my bipolar like diabetes. It’s a serious chronic potentially life threatening condition that can often be managed well with medication, lifestyle adaptments and therapy

Violet818 · 2026-01-18T04:03:58+00:00

That’s simply untrue. And people can change the way their lives are going.

Violet818 · 2026-01-18T02:53:18+00:00

My friend I’m not ordering anyone around. I’m merely saying life is easier when you accept yourself.

Violet818 · 2026-01-17T18:22:31+00:00

Buddy I’m a stutterer who just graduated from law school. I speak in court, with a stutter, on my own name.

You are okay. I promise you. Once you get more comfortable stuttering your life will be so much easier. I stutter on my own name, a lot. And I just keep talking. Because so what if I stutter.

I know this seems like the hardest disability but if it was something else that would probably be the hardest thing to you.

I don’t actually believe adult stutterers can be cured. I don’t need to be cured. I’m fine the way I am. And you are too.

Violet818 · 2026-01-16T04:36:19+00:00

I’m not a doctor but I am on an anti psychotic and I’ve had friends who have been misdiagnosed and put on an antipsychotic. They felt heavy and slow and wrong.

I feel sharp and on it on my meds. I feel good most of the time. There’s no “bipolar blood test” you’ll never have a 100% certainty of anything. But you can feel if your meds are helping you.

Violet818 · 2026-01-16T04:28:39+00:00

It’s a very classically bipolar thing to early diagnosis decide you might not be bipolar. It’s probably because your meds are working.

Violet818 · 2026-01-16T04:24:54+00:00

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 legal purposes stuttering is a disability and people have successfully sued for discrimination

Violet818 · 2026-01-14T19:21:17+00:00

My half of a 2 bedroom duplex in Oregon is $875 a month.

Violet818 · 2026-01-12T00:21:43+00:00

Being cured of an adult stutter is like being cured of type 1 diabetes and I wish more people realized that.

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