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Online speaking Hi, I am new here and I am a 19yo girl who recently started med school. That is already stressful by itself, but after a month of school the second wave came and another lockdown started, so now all the classes are obviously online. My stutter is not bad. I think it is mostly my anxiety and because of it I stutter the most when I am with people I am trying to impress (my dad). I have never spoken to anyone about it. Last week I had an online presentation and it went fairly well, only my actual presentation wasnt loading, so I had to keep asking the class if they were seeing it and that was a pain in the ass. In other classes, we are not really required o speak apart from attendance, which is also bad for me, I stress so much but luckily dont stutter. Since school just started, I dont really know my classmates. We went to a pub twice before lockdown and I felt awful, because we sat at a full table of 15-20 people and it was really loud and that makes it hard to speak. So I didnt say much. We just had a Zoom call and i didnt speak in the whole 2 hours just because I was anxious and thought that since i didnt speak in the beginning, it would be weird to speak now and that everyone will pay closer attention to me. I often fell like I am not the person I am and want to be. I am not seeking advice, there isnt any to give, apart from to forgetting about stuttering and just speaking. But I wanted to share this with someone that will understand so thank you for you time :)