Im having a huge problem with blocks lately.
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Im having a huge problem with blocks lately. I have always had a stutter since I was small and it was really bad as a kid. In middle school and the beginning of high school I still stuttered a little but it wasn’t bad, but it became worse for some reason when I was a junior or senior. Right now I am a junior in college and I still stutter occasionally (mainly when I am trying to say my name, unfortunately) but I mostly suffer from just blocking. One of the words I struggle with the most is “accounting”, which is my major. Every time someone asks me what my major is I just sit there and try to say it for a bit and then I just say “I wanna be a CPA”. This just happened the other day and it really confuses everyone I try to talk to. I also block on completely random words and names occasionally and it just makes me feel so stupid. My friends don’t understand how I can’t say some words and I can’t explain it to them. Also this week was the first week of classes and icebreakers have killed me. I stutter a lot of the time when I say my name and I can’t say accounting so its hard for me to say my major. The blocking gets so much worse when people put me on the spot. Its just so frustrating not being able to say things. My friends and family just don’t get why I can’t say things and I don’t really get it either. Nobody in my family stutters so idk why I do. I just dread having to try to find synonyms for words I block on the rest of my life. Im not looking forward to sitting there awkwardly when someone asks me what I do for a living cause I can’t say accounting. I was just wondering how many people here suffer from this and how do you deal with it? I also just wanted to vent because its really been frustrating me.