commentr/StutterSeptember 1, 2014

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What you wrote is quite inspiring, I am glad you were able to get to a place where you feel comfortable in your own skin and able to say what you want to say when you want to say it. I am 21 years old and have stuttered all my life... probably since I was about 4-5 it just started up and has never left me since. I was thinking about taking up meditation and lately I've been feeling intense anxiety, feeling like I know I am an extroverted person that wants to share his insights and create things and be in the public eye more but it's holding me back. I am currently looking for that thing I could do every day to help myself. I have given up on control techniques because they never feel second nature, you always have to practice and I dont want to have to constantly and intensely focus on what I am saying in order to talk. So I don't know, it difficult being an extrovert with a stutter and anxiety, you feel like you can't do the thing you want to do most.

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Emotional ExperienceCauses & VariabilityIdentity & Disability

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Hope & MotivationAnxiety & Social JudgmentEnergy & Biological RhythmsAcceptance & Pride