I have an interview tomorrow + partial rant I guess
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I have an interview tomorrow + partial rant I guess Hi there, I am a 30 year old woman. As you can guess, as a lifetime stutterer I have so much I can vent, but you already know because you are living it. A quarter of my lifetime with so much pain, embarrassment, constant frustration. Very little speaking on the fly and being seen as timid and shy (starts coming off as creepy after a certain age), because I just can't fucking spit it out. I never reached my full potential in life (so far). I watch all the mindset motivational videos like Joe Dispenza, Tony Robbins, Gary V, even Joel Osteen. But at the end of the day I let the stutter and blocks hold me back. Dear god can you imagine what it would be like to just... fucking talk? And it smoothly flows? With no blocks, not having to think of substitutes, to simply speak with no effort. It has been so hard and even a mourning process to accept that stutter disorder is part of the fabric of my being, just like eye and hair color. Anyway....So I am trying to be a court reporter. The good news is it requires minimal speaking to others. The bad news is it requires quick on-the-fly speaking, like interrupting the witness or attorney "Mr. Smith can you repeat the last 20 seconds?" as well as swearing them in at the beginning. I'm going to have to speak quickly and reliably and be able to say people's names. Dear god help me if I have to say "Amanda" or "Melanie"... if I can force out "Melanie" it's usually prolonged like "Meeeelanie"... you guys know exactly what I mean. I have an interview tomorrow for a scholarship for a court reporter program. Do you have any tips in so I can speak smoothly for 30 minutes? A quick temporary fix? What about using an ear plug in 1 ear? Interestingly, when I block one of my ears just with my hand I usually become fluent and speak normally, it's the weirdest phenomenon, except it does mess with my balance and gives mild vertigo. Btw, my flavor of stutter is mild on good days and moderate on bad days, and far more blocks than stutter, but if I do stutter a word it results in face twisting and prolongation. I have never used any medications for anything including mental health. Had zero help with this from parents as a child, was gaslit and made to feel like a freak in my own home. Do any of the books give borderline cures, as some claim?