How in the world do I meet people with a stutter or make social connections with a stutter?
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How in the world do I meet people with a stutter or make social connections with a stutter? My stutter has led to me growing up with zero friends, none in high school - middle school, etc. It was just so embarrassing. I’m 19 now, a college dropout with zero social circle - and just want to be able to make a single interaction at like a book store or coffee shop. But I just can’t. I just can’t. I know I’ll stutter. Am I doomed to just being a single loner forever? It’s it all over? My only interactions are at work but where I work it’s all just old people and I barely talk anyway, doing low level skills. I hate myself. God damn it - I just want to be able to introduce myself to a random person at a book store and say “Hi, I’m ____, and you? What are you reading?” - to make just one connection. But I just can’t. I’m at a bookstore now trying to meet someone - but I just can’t make myself introduce myself to anyone. I can’t. It’s done.