Wow, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate your response. Thank you so much for taking the time to reach out to me. You are so accurate on so many things about control and acceptance. Tell me more about this radical acceptance, I am all ears! How do you manage to be kind and forgiving to yourself rather frustrated/self-loathing/self-critical? Accurately my sibling suggested that acceptance is what is hindering me from my speech being manageable again. Thank you for the recommendation - I have been finding meditation and yoga to help over the past year or so. I really agree about the grounding - it changes everything about how you show up in the world. I’m really going to look into the VR solutions - I really hadn’t thought to use it in this context. I agree - giving people a heads up eases a lot of the pressure. I have actually been going back and forth in my head about how/when to do it for an upcoming date on Saturday - after reading your comment I won’t feel as self-conscious about it. Thank you.