Wow, you are lucky. Before I learned better habits and learned to reduce my blocks, even the thought of having to speak led to a mini panic attack. I went without heat and hot water the dead of winter in New England for half a week because I was too scared to call my landlord to tell him my furnace was broken . I’ve ordered food at restaurants that i was moderately allergic to because I was too ashamed to ask for a substitution. Like many here, I would have given up limbs if it meant I could talk…