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just joined,, first time posting hi i’m a 18 year old male and i’ve stuttered my whole life. i’ve always wished i knew someone irl that also stuttered but unfortunately i haven’t, so i thought i’d come on here. my stutter is like a roller coaster, it will be relatively mild for a few months, then other months i can barely speak without messing up. so going into highschool i was VERY nervous about how i was going to handle meeting so many new people and introduce myself, etc. (btw introducing myself and saying my name is something i always mess up on) but to my suprise i handled it very well and made A LOT of friends. my speech was pretty good, probably 80/90% fluency consistently all through freshman and sophomore year. but sometime mid junior year about when the lockdown started my speech declined a lot and it has been so bad for so many months, i don’t know what to do. now i feel like i’m loosing all my friends because when we talk my speech is just so bad at times it’s like i’m a different person from when they first met me. I’m not so concerned about keeping any highschool friends as they’re only temporary but now as i’m approaching graduation all i can think about is how the hell im going to get through college, getting a job, making friends, etc. please share your past experiences, thank you