A speech therapist would be cheaper to hire

I started working as a school bus driver a couple of years ago, and my first run was picking up a wheelchair-bound teenage girl with cerebral palsy and driving her to school. After a couple of weeks my boss called me into the office and told me that the girl's father had called her about me. I thought I was in trouble for some reason, but my boss told me that the father had wanted to commend me just because I talked to the girl every morning like a normal person. This actually depressed me because it meant that none of the other drivers had ever talked to her for the years she'd been going to this school. It's like the bare fucking minimum decent thing you can do for someone in a tough situation, and they couldn't be bothered.

Unfortunately, the run was in demand because it took so long to get to her school (I'd only been given it briefly because we had so many drivers out with COVID-19) and I was soon replaced by a more senior driver - who never acknowledged the girl's existence, as her father related to me when I ran into him at the local farmers market.

Must be an USA thing again: got problems with your speech but can't afford logopedic treatment? Get an escort instead!

There are people like this all around us, an invisible sea through which we swim unknowingly. Sorrow is the human condition, but we don't see it because most people don't communicate it.

That man's name? Joseph R. Biden

It's nice to see a genuine friendship blossom out of this.

I'm not crying, you're crying.

Sex workers are the heroes we need - but not the heroes we deserve.

I could see me doing this at some point. Not because I stutter but because most of my friends don't live close by.

This is what I don't get about biden critics. He overcame his own stutter, for the most part. I can't imagine how the stutter manifests itself when you're 83.

This is wholesome.