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Social? Hello there everyone, I've been stuttering as long as I can remember, as most people, it seems, and the severity of it differs quite a lot actually. This spring I was rather fluent in my speech and it didn't really matter what situations I were in, it just worked. I started to do things I normally -- when my stutter level is where it's usually at -- would not even consider doing, and life was like a breeze. My confidence spurted to, for me, enormous levels. I could go on, and on about all the marvelous things that came with this fluency, but I think you already get the picture. But then for some months ago, maybe in june, things slowly began to unwind. All of a sudden my rethorical capacity dropped. And with that came this constant fear and anxiety of speaking situations. (I might have to specify a little; this anxiety mostly grabs onto me when I'm at my work, otherwise it's not that bad, even though it still is noticable.) Damn, I lost the thread. Anyway, what I was trying to say, was that my stutter inhibits me from being the social animal I know I am. I don't want this to be yet another self-pity ramble -- I just want change. I guess the only possible way right now is for me to fully accept it, embrace it even, but I'm currently nowhere near that. I know that you guys go through exact, more or less, things that I do, so I was hoping that a smart person or two could share me some insight. Excuse me if this post lacked structure, I just wrote whatever came to me. Cheers.