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My story Hello Reddit, If I decide to write this post here today it's obviously because I stutter and I need someone to lend an ear, here's my story and what bothers me : I've always stuttered, I don't actually remember a day in my life when I could talk fluently.However I've made a lot of progress and today I'm like 85% fluent when I talk to close people. My stutter is still a problem when I talk to people I don't really know but I'm slowly accepting it and the fact that it will probably follow me for a loonnng time. . What bothers me more than my stutter is how it shaped my personality when I was young and how it's affecting me today: Today I don't enjoy talking like others do, so most of the time when I'm not with people I love I don't talk much.People that don't know me very much usually find friendly, maybe too friendly : I always smile, never disagree with anyone... I know I'm calm because I still stutter today, but it actually goes back to a long time : When I was younger,some people in my class made fun of me, so Instead of arguing with them, I learnt to ignore them and never talk to them. With time I also found a "technique" to avoid my stutter and the mockery of other people : I only used small sentences that carry what I want to say but without giving details for example. I feel today that the only people who really know me are my close friends and my family. I think that with the progress I made I should be able to talk more and use bigger sentences but I still find myself using my old reflexes and it's affecting my social life : for example, I once went out with my friend and we came across his cousin. The next day she told him that she found me cute but asked him why I was so shy. Needless to say that I never dated a girl, and this also bothers me because I see my friends around me talking to girls as if it was something easy. Does anybody have some tips they learnt with experience ? Thank you for reading my story,