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Recent stutter? Hey everyone, I guess I just want to pick everyone’s brains to see what they think of my situation. First I want to say that my stutter/ stammer literally just started affecting me within this past month. I guess for some context, my whole life I’ve never been much of a talker; in any kind of setting, including socially among friends or family or like work/ school I’m always the last person to say anything, mostly because I hate public speaking. I’m also a very nervous/ anxious person in general. A few weeks ago I started noticing that I was stammering ever so often while speaking. At first it wasn’t a big deal…. but being the type of person that I am, probably because of my anxiety, I started becoming fixated on my stammer. Now it’s reached the point where it’s all I can think about sometimes. I’ll wake up in the morning and start worrying about the fact that I have to talk to people, and that I’ll probably stutter/ stammer. So with that lingering anxiety, and if I find myself in a situation where i get nervous enough, the stammer comes out and then I get more nervous and it all goes downhill from there lol. But the thing is, there will be moments where I’m talking to someone, and somehow I completely forget about my stutter/ stammer, and the conversation will go perfectly. Soo it sort of feels like I’m psyching myself out, if that makes sense??? I think I’m noticing that the stammer gets particularly bad when I’m at work, talking to partners/ coworkers… This is where I’ll admit that work is obviously the highest stress in my life, and recently I had something bad go down between me and a coworker that threw me for a loop, like to the point where I was anxious to go to work and have to deal with that coworker. I think that that anxiety maybe has manifested itself in this stammer/ stutter?? Like I said earlier, this stutter/ stammer has literally never affected me until now. So I just want know what y’all think about my situation, and if you have any advice to help me deal with my new stammer.