postr/StutterMay 13, 2022

I've been trying to give a 7 minutes speech for days

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I've been trying to give a 7 minutes speech for days We have to record a video of ourselves talking about a certain topic in English (which is not my first language) for class and I wrote a good script that the professor liked. I've been trying to record this video of me talking for days and it's still very bad: I get blocked on all the "w"s, close my eyes on words that I find hard to pronounce and I make weird faces in order to pronounce them, which causes me to look away from the camera because I don't want to see them. It's frustrating because my stuttering is stress related so I've tried to think logically (I know that I will get a good grade and that professors generally never get upset over my stutter) but it doesn't work. I basically have all the prices for this video but I can't put them together

Themes

Speech & StutteringAnticipation & AvoidanceEmotional Experience

Subthemes

Physical TensionAnticipating StutteringFeared Words & NamesAnxiety & Social Judgment

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reading_aloud