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My stuttering story Firstly I'm very glad that I've found this subreddit and knowing other people sharing the same feeling as mine. Let me tell you my story. I stuttered pretty bad when in my early school days. By high school, I wasnt stuttering that much, but I stuttered during for dynamic things like a speech, debate etc. But reading something aloud infront of class, telling an answer to some question I know, didn't affect me at all. I was one of the brightest students of the class, and I didn't even hesitate to ask questions out loud. Although I didn't stutter, I speak really fast, so people tend not to clearly understand what I'm speaking first time they meet me, but over time they will get used to it. Time in college, I stuttered similar to school, but it didn't bother me that much. I still stuttered on many occasions when I had to address the whole class, during presentations and all. That single thought itself is embarassing, and I have been avoiding such situations all the time. But in college, I was forced to go through many such occasions, so I stuttered really bad in all of them. For casual conversations, there are some days I stutter more, and when I get bothered about it, it tends to get worse. After few days, I will forget about it and it disappears. It comes again after sometime. This comes and goes like that like waves. I started singing during my college days and it helped me pretty well, I found after vigorous singing sessions, my speech has improved really well for sometime. Even I didn't have any problem in performing on stage. Also, If I concentrate on something for more than 2-3 hours my stuttering will disappear, say I'm watching an interesting movie, an interesting series, reading a book, my stuttering will disappear. Times have passed, Now I'm a working professional, at first attending meetings was an extremely difficult thing for me, over time things got improved. Then I had changed my company and tables have turned after that. Workwise it was a very hostile situation for me and self confidence dropped like hell. My stuttering got pretty bad and I couldn't speak at all properly in meetings. I began sensing other people's feelings when I'm speaking. Either they don't want me to speak at all, or some of them fill the words for me. Both were really embarassing and distressing for me. I even began feeling like left out in the team. Even then, I believed this is just temporary, because I was okay with my family members and friends most of the time, but for the past one year, after I have joined this comapny, it has gotten worse, it is hitting me very badly, and I do stutter like everyday even in these casual conversations. Even as the situation in my company has improved, my stuttering is still there. It is constantly hitting me. Now, after this quarantine time have started, I don't even know what is happening with me. Its like I totally lost control on myself. Stuttering is that bad now. I have never consulted a doctor or attended any speech training or therapy till now, because stuttering was not a permanant thing for me and I didn't think it was needed. But this is the worst situation for me, what should I do?