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I hope you can find the type of situations where other people know you stutter, and are willing to listen. Such as asking a friend or family member to meet for coffee, and maybe you guys can set a timer that allows you a few minutes of uninterrupted time to speak. Or maybe join a Toastmasters club where you can give a speech in front of others, because nobody will interrupt you during your speech. And maybe you can even find people in the group that are willing to stay after and let you finish your speech if it was taking you too long. These things could help you gain confidence! We have to remember that for most, of not all of us, our stuttering is from holding back our expression, so we gotta just create/ look for those those spaces for ourselves where we can express little by little, building confidence. I’m trying to work up confidence now then join a toastmasters club or something similar. Also, it doesn’t help your self esteem that your friends don’t invest and ask questions about you. Maybe try telling them that you want to practice your speech and would also like to express yourself more, and would appreciate if they ask you more questions about yourself. If they don’t start asking you more about yourself, consider that you may be better off dropping these friends for the meantime, and spend time working out, doing Nofap, doing anything really to help build up your physical/mental strength. And part of building up strength is being able to let go of your friends’ opinion of you (if they truly don’t value your time, I don’t want to put that in stone as true). I would really recommend the Dave McGuire Program. They have an inexpensive self help book on Amazon called “Beyond Stammering: The McGuire Program for getting good at the Sport of Speaking.” If you follow what the book says, it’s a great start to fluency, and takes a very holistic approach. It really does provide a way to avoid full relapses, though there may be some small ones. And right now, I’m reading “Redefining Stuttering” by John Harrison, which is a great book and expands on some of Dave McGuire’s book. I hope this helps!