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Life with speech blocks:( Sorry about the lengthy post, I've been wanting to get this off my chest for quite a sometime. Now that I'm suffering more due to this speech block issues. I want to see whether there are any others out there experiencing the same misery. I don't stutter but I have a problem in getting certain words out of my mouth, as I've been avoiding those since I've had difficulties getting those out, my mouth now refuses to say those without giving me a hard time. So, basically, I can't even introduce myself and due this difficulty I even avoid going to the doctor's if I fall ill because I don't want to go through the horrible moment of saying my name. I've had a difficulty in saying my name since my school days and I've been trying to say it in many different ways. Sometimes it comes out easily, and of course unexpectedly but then most of the time it's a battle between my mind and my mouth. Even recently when I was out visiting someone that person asked for my name all of a sudden and when I tried to say my name, it just didn't come that was so embarrassing. Secondly, making phone calls, answering phone calls, ordering food over the phone, and now even saying hello is like putting me through hell. Wonder why I'm finding it difficult now to say a simple hello. It's so frustrating because nobody understands how difficult it is to be in a position like this and just because it's easy for them they think it'll be the same for me too. I hate it when they simply say take that call, why don't you talk to them, just give them a call, not knowing that my mind is killing me from within, the minute I hear the phone ringing. When giving directions, I could feel that I won't be able to say this word and if I try to say it, it wouldn't come out and I'd be taking deep breaths trying to say the words and the person on the other end would be like "hello, I can't hear you, what did you say..." And so on And in the place where I live we use another language to communicate and that's killing me even more because I've not used it for like years, I'm finding it hard to get the words out of my mouth. I can even handle other languages but this is the most strenuous part because when I'm required to go out I can't book a vehicle because I can't even get myself to ask whether the vehicle has arrived. I know the words but the block is not allowing me to say those. Every other day I start crying wondering what I'm going to do. It's not easy to understand if we don't know what it feels like to be experiencing this, so people have been pretty much insensitive, even my own family, although they don't do it intentionally. This is my pain, speech block is ruining my life. Thanks for reading (: