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Stuttering I’ve stuttered for as long as I can remember and there’s cycles of when I’m ok with my stutter but as a 22 year old, it’s very difficult for me to be ok with it. I feel like it holds me back on major aspects of my life like socially and especially career wise. Speech therapy has helped me but only works when I’m not nervous and very calm. My speech gets 1000% severe when I’m nervous and I’m nervous 90% of the time, the only 10% of fluency being when I’m at home with my family. I can’t have a conversation with anyone and I’m stuttering 98% of the time when I’m at work (I’m a pharmacy technician). The people I work with don’t understand that I’m a little slow when it comes to the communication part of the job and they think I’m incompetent and not reliable. What is some advice that you guys can give me and how do I train myself to not be tense and nervous all the time?