Who else hasn't stuttered for most of their life?
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Who else hasn't stuttered for most of their life? Because of issues that I would rather not discuss, I developed a stutter (non-existent to extremely severe depending on the situation) around two years ago, when I was around 18. I was completely fluent before that point, so unlike most stutterers on this subreddit, had no experience with it whatsoever. When I first developed it, I was extremely terrified and ashamed. Not having a lifetime of experience to desensitize myself to stuttering around people, my immediate reaction was to completely stop talking to people and shut myself off from the world. For the last two years, I've completely isolated myself. I don't talk to people at all and the only time I leave my house is for class. I've finally convinced myself that I cannot do this anymore and need to acknowledge that there's no going back to the old me and I need to rebuild some kind of life for myself. I was wondering if anyone else here is in a similar situation (as in a "new" stutterer). It would be really nice to talk to someone with whom I can discuss issues that lifelong stutterers don't have to deal with (i.e. extreme anger at having your old life taken from you, desperation to go back to speaking fluently, refusal to accept that you stutter, etc.).