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My stuttering is overwhelming Hello ! Im 23 years old man from a third world country and my stuttering is overwhelmingly intense .. even my stammers friends are shocked how grievous it is. Am concidering myself almost as a mute person. Im really tired of making enormous effort to pronounce a single word. I cant speak fluently with no one even my family or friends. It has been now 4 years, i stopped completely speaking and began communicating with my gsm and its really ruining me. Its an easy solution for sure but a very bad choice for my life. Im studying computer engineering and we are doing a lot of oral presenation and project defense and thats killing me. Even my classmate does not want to work with me for that. No one want a stammer in an presentation after all .. at the begining i tried to speak but its was embarrassing both for me, my mates and juries . Then, i choose to write on notepad with my laptop's screen projected on the board. That was fine but not enough to defend my work and in the most of case, my mates ruined everything and we got bad marks while i have done almost 90% of the work :( In early january, i was summoned by my university's technical director and we had a rude conversation that have had a dramatic negative impact on me. He asked me why i chose computer engeneering instead of anything else who does not require communication. He told me that an engineer is not a normal developer sitting all the days in front of his computer writing some codes and they are forming entrepreneur right here and not a senior technician. After that he mentionned, that i have to pass 2 oral certificates (toiec and french one) in order to get my diploma and its no longer possible to let me use notepad. I felt almost like he tried to tell me that i have to respect the limit of my body and stop trying to do things other people can and not me and that really frustrated my and i stopped going to university for almost one month before making the decision to do a lost year and to consult some psychiatrist, psychologist and orthophonist. But i quit it cause im really tired and lost any confident on all this bullshit ! I have been consulting for almost 10 years, wasting my money in over 10 orthophonist and psy with no results ! On the contrary, it kept getting worse and worse since i have began consulting and im blaming them for what im living now because things they have learned me utterly destroyed me like breathing technique and bullshit like this :( I dont know what to do now, my future is vague, i cant continue my studies with this mental and my parents want result after all money they spent on me. Im also tired of all people who try to give moral lessons about motivation and being strong because none of them knows what it mean to fight his own body ! Thx guys and sorry if my english is not that good ^^