I'm Back!

[Jason]

Yay! Or not.. or so, I just don't know.

Anyway, recently my stutter has got worse. :(

So I am here to talk about stuttering and begin to face it again. I have had a good few months speaking and I think I almost forgot that I stuttered. It was like real life took over and I had no time to stutter.

Ofcourse, when you start thinking you are fluent when in fact you are not problems start to arise. Then you hit the day like I did a few days ago, that was the day I suddenly realised I am stuttering a lot of late.

My general path to correction is as follows.

Speak to other people that stutter.
Once again Identify and Acknowledge my stutter
Work on ways to improve my speech :cool:

Unfortunately this time it will not be so easy. I have moved house and left everyone I know 40 miles away. :eek:. I am not even sure that my comfort zone exists at the moment. Everything in my life has changed and the challenge will be finding what I am comfortable with and adapting. All the while fighting the urge to become a recluse and hide from the world.

Life is a bitch at the moment so hopefully I will give life the whupping it deserves and get back to that 'outgoing but shy' person that my friends know and love ;)

[warrick]

Hi Jason,
Great to have you back, despite the circumstances. It sounds like so much has changed in your life at the moment. Do you feel the stressful change in life circumstances is showing up in your speech??

[Jason]

Without a doubt it is. Usually I have a comfort zone, in this zone I can speak fluently and easily. This then allows me to have the confidence to go out into the world and do the same out there. (even it if it is to a lesser extent)

What I am finding at the moment is that the comfort zone which I used to have doesn't currently exist. As I don't have this I am finding talking difficult at home, when I then go out I am finding great difficulty there too.

I hope that in a week or two I will begin to redevelop my confidence in this new area and let go of what I left behind. Once this happens I hope to be back to my best. :)

[mohito445]

Hello again,

Well I guess we're pretty much in the same boat, Jason.This b-school thing is really getting to me now.I still can't call this place a comfort zone in spite of being here for like 4 months now.Frankly, I try my best to avoid getting to the words that make me stutter.And even when I do stutter, I rephrase and work a way around it.I have been doing this for sometime now but I don't know how much longer this can go on. Most people here don't have a clue that I stutter but I'm dreading the day when they'll find out. This may sound funny but I almost never stutter when I'm drunk.:p

Yeah life is a bitch really. At least for now it is. One thing I know for sure is that I'm gonna give it back to life and work my way out of all this muck. ;)

[Jason]

I never stutter when I am drunk either. Recently I have stopped trying to work around troublesome words. Sometimes I have a run up.

I feel f-f-
I feel f-fine

However I have decided that I do not want to change words any more. I feel much better for it. There have been a few awkward moments where I am about a minute behind the convo because of a stutter but I feel all the better for participating.