Loss for Words: Stories about troubles communicating

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4.4 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers struggle to get the right words out. Part 1: After living with a stutter all her life, Sara Street thinks coding might be the solution to her communication problems. Part 2: Electrical engineer Anna Fox longs to share her work with her family, but struggles with how to explain it. Sara Street has lived in Idaho for seven years with her mom and dad after moving from Texas in 2019; however, her hometown is Greensboro, North Carolina. She is now pursuing her undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She has been very active within the STEM community for the past four years, especially within her school. She served as the Idaho State Secretary for the Technology Student Association (TSA), a student-led STEM CTSO. In her free time, she loves to read and paint. Anna Fox is a scientist and device fabricator at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder Colorado. Besides working with superconducting integrated circuits, she is an avid biker, rafter, crocheter, and reader. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.9	was on my side.
0:53.9	Hey everyone welcome to the story clutter where true personal stories about science help us to discover how weird and wonderful it is to exist in this world and be human.
1:02.9	I'm your host, Misha Gayevsky, and today's episode is all about how hard it can be to communicate, both literally and figuratively.
1:10.7	Our first story is from electrical and computer engineering student Sarah Street.
1:15.8	Her story is recorded at Boise State last year, and I adore this story and Sarah.
1:20.7	Her story really helped me understand what it's like to navigate the world with a stutter
1:24.4	in ways that I never considered before.
1:26.9	I can't wait for you to hear this story.
1:28.9	Here's Sarah.
1:38.9	For a very long time, me and my family have had this tradition to go have, to have a very, like, fancy breakfast every weekend.
1:56.0	It was like a super big treat for us after a long, hard week with dealing with work and school.
2:04.8	And it was where we could just recuperate for our entire week.
2:12.0	And I remember this one specific weekend where we were going to this super bougie breakfast place.
2:20.2	It was no IHOP or Denny's.
2:22.6	It was like up here and like fanciness.
2:27.5	And like me and my mom even like were preparing beforehand, we looked on Yelp. We, we like studied that menu for a long time to know
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