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I can relate dude, I perfectly know how you feel. My stutter has never been the same (I had period where I did stutter less or much more) but the last 3-4 years of my life had been awful when it came to say my name (or my parents name as well). I was absolutely terrified of phone calls, when it was time of booking an appointment and things like that, I simply tried to avoid it as soon as possible, and when the circumstances just put me in the situation where I had to introduce myself, my heart started to beat so fast, I felt like no sound could go through my throat. It was terrible for me to think about going to meet a new group of people because I only was terrified of the moment where I had to introduce myself, but I tried to force myself and go to those ‘meetings’ and not to avoid them. I don’t know if it was because of me ‘training’ saying my name, but the stutter started to slowly get better, I was feeling less nervous, the sound was simply going out and it was incredibly relieving. As per now, I tend to stutter 20-30% of the time I would say, and the other times I have no problem with that. I don’t know if it was the fact that I put myself in that situation much more, but lately I’m not having that problem. My advice is to not give up my friend, keep fighting despite sometimes you might be seen as the one that “doesn’t remember his name”. You will overcome it.