Hi,
I am a 19-year-old female, and I stammer. I do not stammer a lot, I only stammer on certain words - which mainly start with c, d, g, s, t, w (there might be others that I have not mentioned). The worst part is that my surname starts with one of those letters, so in class, I worry that a teacher might ask me what my surname is, or someone might phone and ask for my surname, and then I will stammer. I know that some people say that if you stammer you must first think what you want to say before you say it, but this makes it even worse for me. If I think about it, it causes me to
stress, and then I end stammering, I can say any word aloud to me without stammering, but I stammer in front of other people. So I guess that I stammer because I am stressing over I might stammer? In high school we had to read aloud and when I stammered people in the class used to laugh, sighs it was embarrassing for me, and I hated going to that class.
Thanks in advance.