My GOAT coping mechanism got ruined by a friend (which I know that he didn't intended to make me feel bad about it). I have a hard time explaining things to people without stuttering, especially if it's important, makes arguing pretty annoying for me. I had this coping mechanism that truly worked pretty well, and it was a way of getting attention from people, I used this frequently, I started every form of explaining utterance with sort of like 'So, this is what happened / This is what it's like / So it started like this", sort of presenting what you're about to say with this small little utterance. I felt it was such a good way to start conversations with strangers, as having their complete full attention made it so much easier to present my feelings or ideas. What eventually happened is a good friend of mine took notice of this, and ridiculed my way of using these sort of phrases so often prior to speaking. I got so incredibly embarassed that someone snapped up on this, and now I can't really use this form of method, for some reason it's so heavily emotionally attached to what this dude told me years ago, it doesn't work for me anymore, presenting it this way does nothing anymore.