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[Moh1991]

Hi everyone
My name is Mohammad, I am 17 years old and I live in Calgary, Canada
I am still a high School student, in grade 12
Stuttering affected my studies so much that I am now doing online school, in order to avoid doing presentations or giving speeches in front of people
In grade 9, my stuttering was not that bad I used to get lots of girls and didn't had any problems in dates
in grade 9, I was also comfortable doing presentations because I was used to it after completely messing up two presentations and then I got comfortable
but now, I am graduating in June and I want to enter University for Engineering
So I am just here to meet some people who can understand me and make some new friends

[nate]

eid mubarak Moh
ah to be born in the 90's.

Nate

[Box of Clocks]

Hello there Moh1991. Welcome to the forum.

[Violet]

hello :) i'm in year twelve also and thankfully i only have to make two speaches this coming year. (i get so freaked out about them that i work them out like practically a year in advance) one of them is a "conversation" which goes for ten minutes, and i am so scared of that one cause
a) i can't plan what i am going to say down to every letter,
b) its for religion and im pretty sure that my teacher will be marking them so we will all have to present to her and out of all my teachers she is the only one i am scared to talk to :( and cause she is the most intimidating i have far more trouble talking to her. like she's a nice person but her idea of teaching is reading out loud from the text book (dies) and then calling upon random people to reiterate what the paragraph just said (dies even more)
once we had to write down key words from some reading and then she called upon me to read out one of them and i blocked on every single one so i couldnt speak at all and shes there encouraging me to speak up and im there unable to breathe and having tears streaming from my eyes cause i have the whole class watching me and im in pain from not being able to breathe, and just the whole emotional pain from everything. and i had just seen the carreers person and i was already wound up from that cause the thought of leaving school and the future makes me like go all suicidal.. so she eventually gives up and moves on and im there like sobbing in the corner, and then she has the nerve to ask me again and the whole thing is repeated. :mad:
and now she has like scarred me for life, cause before that i had hardly had a problem cause most teachers i was more comfortable with and they werent into the whole putting me under the spotlight.

what do you think made your speech worse?

[Moh1991]

hello :) i'm in year twelve also and thankfully i only have to make two speaches this coming year. (i get so freaked out about them that i work them out like practically a year in advance) one of them is a "conversation" which goes for ten minutes, and i am so scared of that one cause
a) i can't plan what i am going to say down to every letter,
b) its for religion and im pretty sure that my teacher will be marking them so we will all have to present to her and out of all my teachers she is the only one i am scared to talk to :( and cause she is the most intimidating i have far more trouble talking to her. like she's a nice person but her idea of teaching is reading out loud from the text book (dies) and then calling upon random people to reiterate what the paragraph just said (dies even more)
once we had to write down key words from some reading and then she called upon me to read out one of them and i blocked on every single one so i couldnt speak at all and shes there encouraging me to speak up and im there unable to breathe and having tears streaming from my eyes cause i have the whole class watching me and im in pain from not being able to breathe, and just the whole emotional pain from everything. and i had just seen the carreers person and i was already wound up from that cause the thought of leaving school and the future makes me like go all suicidal.. so she eventually gives up and moves on and im there like sobbing in the corner, and then she has the nerve to ask me again and the whole thing is repeated. :mad:
and now she has like scarred me for life, cause before that i had hardly had a problem cause most teachers i was more comfortable with and they werent into the whole putting me under the spotlight.

what do you think made your speech worse?

hey Violet
nice to meet you
yeah I know how you feel
I am getting very nervous these days as well when I think about what I'm going to do in life
even my parents don't understand me in fact my started stuttering at the age of 16 and that too only because he made fun of a stutter so much and now his stutter has almost disappeared
but im here stuck in the middle of no where
well I will get to your question now...when I was about 13 years old I was getting very scared on presenting a science project
but once i was presenting it I would say I did a very good job on it and i kept on presenting with no problem
and then after some time I really messed up in a presentation but then got used to presenting again
and after that I didn't present for a year
and back in June this year every student had to present their project
and I only presented infront of my teacher and I could barely say 2-3 words

so I guess both of us can give speeches only after many bad days and facing our fears
and of course if we get a good speech therapy program