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Impact of Isolation on Stutter Hi all, I live alone and have been in isolation since 13th March. Thankfully I can work from home and my weeks are very busy. I've had a stutter all my life but found a way to work with it. It's not bad but a few times a day I'll really struggle with a few words. All these new Skype/ video calls were hard at first but it got easier. However, this past week my stutter has been getting progressively worse. I'm very comfortable at home and by myself but the lack of physical social interaction is having an adverse effect on my speech. Most of the time you wouldn't realise unless I told you but the rate of decline recently is among the worst it's ever been. Often, if I stuttered with a word, hearing someone else say it would immediately alleviate the block. I feel that now, I'm struggling with words and sentences I shouldn't be because I haven't heard people say them face to face for a long time. Simple/ every conversation is now very difficult and it's not something I'm used to after finding ways to cope so well until now. Has any one else seen something similar after being isolated and away from people for so long? Slightly apprehensive at the way my speech has declined so fast in 7-14 days...