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I'm in trouble peeps Obvious throwaway. I have had a stutter my whole life. Severity depends on the day but I would generally categorize it as mild to moderate. EXCEPT MY FUCKING NAME. I stutter badly over my name. I physically dread meeting people because of this. I have thought about using my middle name but you kinda have to move and start fresh to do that and not get weird looks when you correct people to use your new name. Anyway I started off in a company in maintenance and have climbed the ladder into an IT developer. I take a full advantage of the fact that I have been with the company 12 years and everyone either knows my name or learns it in passing "Hey David, thanks David, etc" Problem is I keep wanting more in my job. More projects, more work, but for some fucking reason my boss sees some sort of management quality in me. (I do bust my ass at my job, but that doesn't make me management material) anyway when a new executive starts and I have to meet him, or we have a round table or anything like that I have figured out Smirnoff and Sprite followed by a nice cigarette hides the smell and I get through whatever I need to speak on with 80-95% fluency. Day to day it's more like 60-70% fluency with all the calls and shit I have to make all day. But that's either me saying my name on the phone, which I do fine, or dealing with people who already know my name. When I have to introduce myself I get severe anxiety. Well now my boss wants me to help interview people for an job opening next week. We're talking 3-4 interviews a day, some at 9 am. What's the first thing you do in an interview? "Hi I'm Dddddddddddddddavid." So now I get to choose between humiliating myself in front of my boss, and two other managers, or be staring at a fucking bottle of Vodka at 830 am and ride a fucking hangover all day. I know this is my fault but any advice or insight would be amazing.