Public Speaking In Middle School

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My problem I have in my life is public speaking as from an early age I began taking speech therapy classes once a week until the start of middle school. These therapy sessions helped me to be able to start speaking in public. However, the real issue that came with public speaking was not due to the fear of the people itself but rather the mental anxiety of stuttering or slurring a word in the progression of a speech or a presentation completely destroys my confidence of the delivery. In this sense putting attention to the fact that I had a speech impediment at an early age only forced the idea in my head that I will make a mistake while speaking in front of a crowd. In middle school almost every class required a oral presentation on a quarterly

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