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Stuttering on “it’s okay” Hiiii! I’m a freshman in high school and I have a stutter since I was 5 years old. One of the things that I struggle with is saying the words “it’s okay” or reassuring people when they make a mistake. For example, sometimes at school, some of my classmates would accidentally knocked over my water bottle or notebooks. They would immediately apologize after and I want to reassure them by saying “it’s okay” or like “don’t worry at all, you’re fine” but I can’t due to my stutter. I mostly struggle with blocks so whenever I tried saying these words, words won’t come out of my mouth and before I know it, they already left without hearing me. I do sometimes manage to say the words out loud (very rarely tho) but obviously it won’t be fluent. So then the atmosphere between me and the person who apologized would get awkward and I feel like the person who apologized will worry about the mistake and I don’t want that to happen. Also, since I can’t reassure them in these situations, I feel like classmates see me as cold or not friendly towards others and I don’t want to be misunderstood even more. I feel so ashamed of myself for not reassuring people so if there are any alternative ways to saying “it’s okay” or solutions to this, please let me know :( Also sorry if you have a hard time reading this post. It’s my first time using Reddit and I’m writing this very late at night so my grammar and my format can be bad.