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Hitting a speed bump I am now 22 and for the last few years I have not had issues with my stutter. When I was 20 I got my first girlfriend and it felt like that relief of having another person to communicate with intimately lightened the burden of the stutter. My interactions with others became more comfortable and I almost forgot I had a stutter. I enjoyed it. This past week I have noticed my stutter worsen to as bad as it was at its worst. I have been struggling to start sentences and say what I want. It is really hurting and I don't feel like myself when its happening. I try to not care about how others perceive me when this is happening, but it is just too hard. I am not representing myself in the way I want others to view me. It is impacting my personal identity and causing a lot of social anxiety. When I am with my girlfriend I rarely stutter and feel very comfortable if I do. I can be in my most vulnerable state around her with out feeling any stress. She is the best thing to ever happen to me. But she is in her senior year of college and i'm living home and am noticing old habits start to pick up. I try to leave at least every other weekend and visit her at school to have a get away. I spend time with other friends when I am not with her but feel a lot of pressure and stress when in social interactions. The pressure to communicate and add value to a group. With a stutter, I feel like it is hard to voice what is going on in my head. It is almost as if the oral stutter is trickling into my thinking mind and my thoughts are beginning to stutter and I dont have the clarity to voice my self. Does anyone else have this problem? When I am alone, my thinking is fluid and filled with creativity. When I am in a social interaction, my thinking stutters and my creativity is impacted. I want to get other thoughts on this topic. Thanks for reading.