People Who Finally Spilled Their Deepest, Darkest Secrets

More Than Words

I have a stutter, and almost no one knows. I am able to hide it by 1) Being relatively quiet; 2) Being a human thesaurus of small words. If I can’t say the word I’d like to use, I use awkward phrasing and other words to get my point across; 3) Saying things like “Oh I can’t think of the word…” or “I forgot what I was saying”. I am extremely anxious whenever I’m in a social situation.

I have told one person in my life, a girlfriend of many years. She was supportive at first, then left me two weeks later. Never again.

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