Credit: SWNS / Jessie Yendle
A woman who gets interrupted, ignored and hung up on due to her stammer is calling for a universal symbol to indicate a speech impediment and buy her patience.
Jessie Yendle, 31, developed a stammer aged three and grew up being bullied and teased for it at school.
Jessie says people such as substitute teachers struggled to understand what she was saying - and the pressure of trying to explain it just made her stammer worse.
And even as an adult, she says she gets interrupted and ignored - and sometimes people put the phone down on her after mistaking her for a prank caller.
Jessie feels life with a stammer could be greatly improved if a recognisable symbol was introduced - so people with stammers don't have to explain themselves every time they speak.
She said all that's needed is a subtle signal for people to know to "be a bit more patient and understanding" when conversing with a person who has a stammer.
A woman who gets interrupted, ignored and hung up on due to her stammer is calling for a universal symbol to indicate a speech impediment and buy her patience.
Jessie Yendle, 31, developed a stammer aged three and grew up being bullied and teased for it at school.
Jessie says people such as substitute teachers struggled to understand what she was saying - and the pressure of trying to explain it just made her stammer worse.
And even as an adult, she says she gets interrupted and ignored - and sometimes people put the phone down on her after mistaking her for a prank caller.
Jessie feels life with a stammer could be greatly improved if a recognisable symbol was introduced - so people with stammers don't have to explain themselves every time they speak.
She said all that's needed is a subtle signal for people to know to "be a bit more patient and understanding" when conversing with a person who has a stammer.
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00:00Do you know any celebrities who had a stammer as a child?
00:04Ed Sheeran had a stammer.
00:06Do you know anyone who got a stammer?
00:09Yes, of course I do, and I'm a huge fan of Kendrick Lamar.
00:12Richard Branson, you couldn't read or write, he had a stammer.
00:14I have a friend of mine personally as well.
00:16Do you think there is a stigma around a stammering?
00:19Yeah, definitely.
00:20Yeah, I think there's a lot of judgement.
00:22Do you know what a st-st-st-stammer is?
00:25And I've just like demonstrated it basically.
00:28It's just a part of you, you are beautiful and unique and everything!
00:34My name is Jessie, and I've got a speech impediment.
00:38And I like to do a random act of kindness challenges.
00:42And I just want to say that your makeup is, well, a chef kiss, like beautiful.
00:48And I want to give you like this, a flower to, to, to, to, to, um, um, um, um, um, um,
00:54um, to make your day a little bit brighter.
00:58Oh, thank you!
00:59People are like speaking to me, like, nice to meet you by the way.
01:01Like, thank you so much.
01:02Like, thank you.
01:03Like, bye, bye, bye, bye!