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Confused Hello all, first off let me say that this group helps me a lot and reminds me that I’m not alone in this journey. So basically I have a mild stutter my whole life, you probably wouldn’t even know I stutter unless you were looking for it, I use avoidance A LOT in social situations (which I know you shouldn’t do) to the point where I rarely stutter becasue I just simply avoid those words. I graduated college a little over a year ago and I have been working full time for a year now for in insurance agency. So most of my job is talking on the phone to other people. 95 % of the time I am perfectly fluent. But there is that 5% of the time where the stutter rears it’s ugly head. And always on the same few words. Ive always struggled with words that start with D. And in the insurance world I have to say “discount” and “deductible” a lot. Some days I can say them perfectly fine without a problem. Other days I can barley get the words out and it takes what feels like 30 seconds for any sound to come out. This is extremely extremely frustrating because I know exactly what I wanna say and just physically cannot and I feel like I can do my job a lot better Because I know exactly what I want to say and simply can’t. And the more I think about focusing on the words the worse the stutter gets, and it is an endless cycle. A few months ago I read somewhere to replace “d” sounds with “th” and that honestly worked wonders for me for a few months. So I was “thethuctible” which during a conversation, you can’t even really tell the difference that I’m saying it weird. Again I do know this is a bad strategy of avoidance but it was working for me. And now as of a few weeks ago I am now stuttering on the “th” sound too and just saying “thhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” for a long time. And now I am back at square feeling lost and confused