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I wasn't bullied to bad about my stutter in school. I did have some bullying in school but not really about the stutter. The main problems were my parents doing the same shit as everyone else's. The usual "stop, think" approach that makes it worse and I do kinda resent not being put in speech therapy as a child. I had a lot of anxiety and stuff all throughouy school and wasn't very popular but by the end of school I had been with the same people pretty much the whole time and everyone just knew how I was and no one made a big deal of it. Uni sucked starting in a whole new world and I ended up dropping out. Not solely because of my stutter but the anxiety issues I have that is part of having a stutter. I tried to join the RAAF as a pilot and got rejected for not having clear speech. I tried speech therapy as an adult and found I'd improve for a couple of days and then it would get worse. As an adult though I've found as long as I can do my job no one cares about my stutter. I'm a signal electrician now and alot of my job is talking on the phone. People know me by my stutter but know that I know what I'm doing. I've gotten pretty good and managing my anxiety and I've just reached a point where being worried about my stutter is just too much effort and just makes my life harder. I have a wife, a kid and a job, in the big scheme of things I've got things better then most.