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Anxiety-driven stutter I have a speaking exam in some days and I've been practicing. Since no-one in my family speaks English, I've been practicing on my own and everything has gone well of course, because I don't stutter at all. Tonight I got an anxiety attack about my exam being very near, so I asked my brother (which understands some English) to listen to me while I practiced. It went horribly. I usually don't stutter much around my brother, I just have a couple of my usual blocks but nothing to major. This time it was incredibly heavy, like when I'm giving a presentation or when I'm feeling particularly emotional. This made me very sad to be honest. I felt so bad to stutter in a situation I never struggled in before. Probably it was just because I was tired since it was already late in the evening and because I was very anxious, but it still felt terrible and I'm worried about what will happen at the exam.