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I need help with my speech blocks Hello everyone, I hope I can get some input on this. I have been dealing with speech blocks for about 2 years now I am a 25 y/o male. I would stutter growing up, but not really as bad. It would be from time to time regular stutters, but not speech blocks. Fast forward to me getting my first corporate job interview I was asked to introduce myself in front of 10 of our managers. It went like this, "Hello my name is K........" I was unable to say my own name. Nothing came out, no matter how hard I pushed myself nothing would come out and someone had to embarassingly introduce me for me. From that day on I developed speech blocks. I had no idea what it was but I realized that I don't have any speech blocks when speaking to myself. It has ruined my confidence in speaking and I have become introverted by force. The letters I struggle with the most are the letters S, C, K and M. It has gotten so bad to the point where when I am ordering food and they ask for my name I lie and say my name is aaron because I can pronounce A. It has definitely taken over my life because I am interviewing for other jobs and have tried to look up youtube videos on how to combat it. I can speak, and it really depends on what kind of situation I'm in but ultimately I have a hard time speaking. ​ None of my friends and family understand what it is because I am good at hiding it and masking words to different words. The true concern I have is, will this ever go away? I do not want to live with speech blocks forever and would rather much stutter instead of having blocks. I can't pronounce my own name and that's so sad. ​ tl;dr Speech blocks ruining life and confidence with interviews and interacting with people