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I’m still in highschool but have a decently bad stutter. Right now it’s slightly hard for me to form a coherent sentence in class or even just with my friends. During class one way it’s kind of made me interact differently is I won’t raise my hand or offer to read aloud for the class because my stutter gets 5x worse when i’m reading aloud. I don’t want to be the kid that takes ten minutes to read a paragraph or waste anyone’s time. This often looks like to other people that I don’t care or simply don’t understand what we’re learning or what we’re doing which (most) of the time isn’t the case. In math I’ll know an answer and try to say it but by the time other people have finished saying the answer i’m still on the first word, this has made me have to prove to the teacher other ways that i know what I’m doing and don’t really need any help and stuff. Like showing her my notes, clarifying and solving problems in front of her. (keep in mind, i’m not an extremely assertive person and won’t ask for help unless i’m feeling bold, so my friend also helps in asking and trying to see if i understand the material by seeing if i can explain to her what to do and stuff) A lot of the people I’m with at school tend to know to just let me finish my sentences as well, especially when i’m getting frustrated cause i just can’t stop stuttering. It’s just small accommodations we’ve made mostly unspokenly and stuff so that we’re all doing great and stuff during school