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Afraid to stutter at my new job. So I started stuttering when I was a kid in elementary school. At first it was probably a phase. But due to being bullied at school it kinda stuck longer. I eventually got worse and worse throughout middle school and high school. Not until my senior year did I improve a whole lot. I got a girlfriend which made it go away for a while since I had someone to actually practice talking with and also got a job at a grocery store so I improved a bit as well. Just recently after graduating college I was hired at a medical facility as a cardiac tech. My job responsibilities consists of talking on the phone with patients and writing down any symptoms they might be having. However this was just my first week. Next week I’m actually going to start making the phone calls. And honestly I am just stressing out so much about it. Because my instructor will be there listening in all day every day next week and I’m afraid I’m going to stutter when saying the mandatory greeting and when saying my name. I’m afraid she’ll point it out and even worse possibly lose my job if it keeps happening so frequent. I don’t stutter too often now however. I would classify myself to minor stuttering where as when I was younger it would’ve been extremely sever. However I just have the tendency to stutter on words I know I always have to say. Like when arriving into the garage at work I have to state my companies name and I always stutter when saying it. So I just wanted to ask how everyone else deals with their stutter at work, school, daily life and how can I overcome my fear of phone calls since I am losing sleep and hunger over this massive fear taking over my life.