Has everyone’s speech gotten worse since quarantine?
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Has everyone’s speech gotten worse since quarantine? Cause mine sure fucking has! Had a stutter as a kid. Outgrew it. Extreme stress at 24, two years ago. It came back. Did one of those 10-day intensive clinics during the summer 2018. Essentially became 99% fluent again with the tools they teach and have more or less been 90-100% fluent ever since. Anyway, I started working from home in April and then about a few weeks into it, everything turned to shit? Super bizarre. I ASSUME it’s a) the stress, but much more likely, b) the sheer lack of practicing my techniques in front of people or in anxiety inducing situations. Then it’s just a vicious cycle of “I can’t use these techniques when I need to”, which leads to an increase of anxiety, which leads to more struggle implementing techniques, blah blah blah. Anyway... just me? I’ve ramped up my fluency practice to three times a day of 20 min each and I’m maybe SLOWLY making some headway, but shit. It’s super annoying. Because the stutter is relatively new to me, since much of my later childhood/adolescence/young adulthood has been 100% fluent. And now this thing is back in my face and it’s super freaking me out. Realistically I’m probably gonna have to be patient and accept the stutter to some degree, as it is a part of me, but I do hope and look forward to some of the bizarre global stress reducing and hopefully my speech improving as a result as well.