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Need advice. What would you do? So Im currently on my third year of college, out of a total of four. Just started the semester and just learned today that one of the classes consists of solving different situations and problems that might occur in businesses or companies. We will have to write an assignment detailing our proposed course of action and also do an ORAL PRESENTATION of it, in groups of 3 students, once a week. That means I will at least have 15 oral presentations this semester, once a week, every thursday. I have the worst anxiety I've ever had. I feel miserable and terrified. I already didn't take a class named "Comunication techniques" last semester that involved a presentation every week because of the fucking stuttering, and I will have to retake it next year. Now, I have excelled at every other class I've taken, I have gotten the best grades at the most difficult classes, teachers have congratulated me and my classmates often ask me for help. I like my major and I love studying, writing and researching and learning comes easy to me, but make me do an oral presentation in front of class and you'd think im fucking mentally disabled. Words just dont come out and I stutter like crazy. The guys from my group are very supportive but they don't understand the problem at all. One of them told me to just practice a lot, memorize well and bring a piece of paper to remember if I block mid presentation. Thing is, I can remember the words perfectly and also think of things to say in the spot, the problem is I CANT FUCKING SAY THEM. I block a lot and stutter on everyword and it just fucking sounds miserable. On another class I had the first semester we had to make an oral presentation and the end and I decided to just do it. I practiced a lot and thought that if I just did it, it would become easier the next time. It was a terrible presentation, I blocked a lot and stuttered on almost every word. I felt worse afterwads, frustrated as hell and mad at myself and the world. What would you do in my place? Would you ask the teacher for some acommodations? Like asking to do the presentation alone with just the teacher and the group? Im desperate and starting to feel like this is too much. This condition is so fucking frustating man. So frustating. I dont know if I will be able to live with it the rest of my life, im only 23 yo man. The damn frustration. Im from Chile btw. Greetings to all beautiful people.