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Difficulty communicating speech impairment to others

💚 healthsocial problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 4/5

A person with mild aphasia reports that they struggle to get others, including interviewers and acquaintances, to respect their need for written communication over phone calls, often leading to negative assumptions about their intelligence or motives.

Who's affected: The reporter, who has a mild form of aphasia.

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

What people do today

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. A digital communication card app that generates professional, pre-written scripts for explaining specific disabilities to employers or strangers.
  2. A browser-based tool that creates standardized, legally-backed accommodation request templates for job applicants to send to HR departments.
  3. A community-led advocacy platform that provides resources and templates for reporting non-compliance with disability accommodation requests in professional settings.
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Real voices

“many people insist to call me instead. Usually, I'm just doing my best to hide it, but this often doesn't work well”

Source: Stack Exchange (interpersonal) · CC BY-SA 4.0, user-contributed content from Stack Exchange; summarized and modified

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