How do you deal with telephone-phobia?
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How do you deal with telephone-phobia? I'm 25, been stuttering my whole life, been scared of telephones for half of that time. I won't go through the frustrations of telephone calls that we face (as I'm sure you are all acutely aware of what it's like), but rather, I want to know how you have dealt with or overcome this fear? I have a job interview coming up in which a large portion of the job will be essentially tech support. Naturally this will involve a lot of phone time with customers. Due to having conditioned myself to be afraid of phone calls, I am now fairly intimidated by this job. I sure as hell am not going to turn down a job just because I stutter, but nevertheless, I am filled with anxiety about it. Perhaps this is an opportunity to take this fear head on. How do you deal with telephones? Oh yea and the guy who called me thought I was Australian by the way I was pronouncing words. Most likely me just changing the inflection of a word I was trying to get past. Not trying to gripe, just thought that as kind of funny.