commentr/StutterSeptember 8, 2024

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Thank you so much for your kind words! I really appreciate it, it is a great step for us who stutter to enter new path with the anxiety bcs of stuttering. I really hope we can manage. The only time i have a negative experience was back in senior year of high school, we have a broadcasting project we are tasked to act like a newscaster in front of different sections so it is kind of a big crowd. I was so nervous as it was my first time speaking in front of a huge crowd and i was having speech blocks terribly and i saw this group of boys giggling while looking at me and i almost wanted to cry but i managed to finish my part bcs i tried to shorten it. It was traumatizing to me that i cried myself to sleep for a few days. I still get flashbacks of those memories but i feel like im accepting my speech problem slowly and tries not to be tied down by it.

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Anticipation & AvoidanceEmotional ExperienceIdentity & Disability

Subthemes

Experiential AssociationAnxiety & Social JudgmentIdentity & Self-Perception

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public_speaking