Just a little victory story for the day...
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Just a little victory story for the day... So I've been terrified to talk on the phone pretty much my entire life, unless it's with close family or something like that, as I'm sure many of you other stutterers can relate. In fact, I've really own talked to strangers on the phone just two or three times throughout my 20 years of life. Anyway, I walk into work this morning at Cal Poly Pomona (I'm also a student there) and my boss said that we have a boatload of papers to shred and that I should go to the Math Department because they have an industrial shredder. Then she said I should give them a call to let them know that I was coming, and as soon as she said that, my heart sank to my stomach with fear and dread. And of course I couldn't say no, I have a job to do! So I took my time, meticulously planned out what I was going to say, and made the phone call. I had a lot of extremely negative thoughts and a lot of doubt in my ability to fluently ask them to use the shredder going into the phone call. But fortunately, I had only one small block, and the rest of what I said was incredibly smooth. And when I hung up the phone, I felt very proud of myself in what small accomplishment that I had just achieved. Sure I really only had to ask one small thing, and to the vast majority of non-stutterers, it's not a big deal at all. But to us, it feels like a matter of life and death haha. I truly believe that sharing and reflecting on these small victories help to boost our self-confidence and make us a little more optimistic about the future of our stuttering. Thanks for reading. :)