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Need tips and advice I’m currently 12 with a stutter. I suddenly started to stutter back in fifth grade. I was reading to the whole class and all of a sudden I was starting to stammer and stutter. My stutter wasn’t as bad as it is now. Now a lot of the times I twitch my eye for some unknown reason. I’ve tried to hide my twitching by acting like I’m stretching and I bend my head a bit back so they feel like I’m absolutely normal and just stretching. No one really talks shit too me about my stutter but I can tell that they get impatient with me and I feel like I’m annoying them. Another thing that I do is close my eyes for some reason. A lot of the things that I do when I stutter just happen and I don’t really know why. When I have a word in my mind that I try to say but I know that I’m going to stutter with it, I just try to stall like saying “ummm, damn I forgot” or some other worthless excuse. I don’t really ever try to abuse my self mentally. Although I don’t really care about my stutter it does get in the way of my education. Every time I need to do some sort of presentation or something of that sort, I try to find excuses. If it’s a group presentation I would try to stay home. Also when the teacher asks a question I really want to raise my hand, but then everybody always looks at the person talking so it just adds even more pressure to me. My teachers always tell me that I’m quiet. I just want to know if anybody does the same and if so what do you do to cope with your stutter.