A matter of confidence?

[aKoChiC86]

During that schoolday, a while ago, I had to do a presentation on the afternoon. I was anxious, felt my pulse in the classroom. I started to get sweaty hands, didn't go up front volunteerly so I waited until all had done theirs. I was the last...

Earlier that day I had rehed and hooked up on some words I had great fear of stuttering while in front of the whoole class. I wanted to go home...

Yet, I walked up. put down the paper and took deep breaths. Put a smile on my afce and observed my class, MY class. I went thorugh my presentation even though I stuttered some words, I was nervous, everyone could hear my voice trembling.
After I finished I received applauds and got down.

Then, all of a sudden, I felt a great relief and warmth!
that was confidence building up, of what I'd achieved.
The rest of the day I talked a lot and didnt stutter, I enjoyed the rest of the day.

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What conclusion can we make of this?
Do we need to go thorugh an embarassing situation before we start to see things lightly and therefore stop stuttering? Do we have to expose ourself first? I think so, I think we need to expose our flaws before we can correct them... Does this mean telling the surrounding we stutter, ie be true no matter how embarrasing it may seem?

What do you think?

[EndOfHeart]

I think confidence does matter in some stuttering situations but of course we all got different reasons we stutter.

I think confidence does matter in my case though and what you say in telling other people that i stutter and then maybe I won't be as afraid when I talk may be true. But that is easier said then done :p . I'm sure I will still be embarrassed when i talk and maybe even more so.

[Iced Tea]

That warm feeling was you peeing yourself. :p

Good for you to have a great experience while public speaking.

The only way I can do it is to rehe the presentation again, again and again. But then I'm still as nervous as can be.

One time I was having an ok presentation when the teacher told me to wrap it up because I was over my time limit. I can't remember exactly what I said but I told her to settle down and I'd finish when I finished. After the class was over, all the other students thought I was nuts for telling the teacher off. I was so nervous, I didn't realize what I had done.

Many people, including stutters, need to lighten up and I have done this in the past few years to moderate success. I still can't talk to women I would like to date though. Maybe I should gather a few in a classroom and do a presentation on why they should date me. :D

[Vermillion]

Hey fellow Canuck
I'm from Vancouver, BC

[Standingtall]

Well, I'm from Edmonton, home of the Grey Cup. I took my girls swimming at Salmon arms a two years ago.