Recently discovered that I barely stutter when I'm drinking, and I'm a bit scared at what this could lead to.
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Recently discovered that I barely stutter when I'm drinking, and I'm a bit scared at what this could lead to. So, I was recently at a recruitment even where I was drinking pretty heavily. I was speaking to a foreign-born person and they were talking about how people talk to them like they're slow even though they can understand things just as well, they just have an accent. I responded by saying that I can relate as a speech disabled person, because people talk to me like I'm slow even though I have absolutely no issue understanding English or thinking of what to say in English - I'm sure a lot of you guys can relate to that sentiment. The person I was takling to was very confused and said they hadn't noticed me stutter. I thought they were just being nice, but then I realized that they were right - I barely stuttered at all before talking to them, and didn't stutter much at all for the rest of the night, despite talking to a lot of people I barely knew. I'm scared that this is going to make me reliant on alcohol. I'm 22 and it's legal and all that, but I've been searching for so long for a fix and I might've found it. Luckily, I'm super picky about alcohol so that might hold me off a bit, but I just don't know what to do. Has anyone else been in a similar situation? for what it's worth, most of my stutter is blocking and prolongation, not repition, and it is persistent despite social setting (i.e. a stutter as much at home with my family as I do giving a presentation)