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Ok, so I have a speech today. Need support/advice. (Glossophobia)
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Yeah.  So if any one is wondering what Glossophobia means.  Its a phobia of speaking in public.  I have it REALLY bad.  I have a speech in about 15 hours.  Its about 5min long speech.

I can't think back to ONE successful "speech" in my whole freakin life.  They all end in freezing up, shaking, TOTALLY blanking...  Its something I started avoiding.  Well.. I have to do a "make a change" speech.  (on global warming and dimming)

I entered the class late.. and the moment I found out we need to do a 5 minute "ice breaker" I just excepted I'm dropping the class.  Well..  I forced my self not to drop the class.  Over the next 2 weeks I slowly convinced my self I was going to give this another shot.  (this is coming from someone who fears speaking in public almost more the anything else)  So this didn't come without forcing my self and jumping off that cliff of comfort.

Whats kind of scaring me is I cant even go 5 minutes talking to my self in the mirror without fucking up on this speech.  And a fuck up on stage tends to have a much greater impact.  So anyway..I guess this is some desperate attempt to gain some last minute confidence.

Share your tips in helping keep my mind working and clear.



I watched some other people give there speech's and I noted a few things:

-don't mention I'm a bad speaker.  I saw a kid do it and it kind of just made the class focus more on it. 

- Do my best to keep my hands posted on the podium.  I figit a lot when I'm nervous.  I'll do my best to avoid this.

-Really work on not saying "umm" a lot.  This also is a habit that becomes rampant when I'm nervous. 

I feel like I'm going towards a nightmarish end as this speech gets closer.  I hate being so nervous..  I try and quite my mind from playing over the bad scenarios.  :sad:  I'm going to give this my best shot and keep in mind that there are many others who have the same fear as me.


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Re: Ok, so I have a speech today. Need support/advice. (Glossophobia) [Re: Toddo]
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If you start fucking up, just crack a little joke on yourself, should ease the tension a little. I'm not really a master public speaker since I don't need to do it ever, but times I have that's what I do.

What is this for? Like a giant lecture kinda thing, or is it a smaller audience??


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Re: Ok, so I have a speech today. Need support/advice. (Glossophobia) [Re: jewunit]
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its a group of like 35 people.  Speech and debate.  Something I love..  once I get past the fear of the speech element :lol:.    And the class itself brings a lot of comfort..  you have a really understanding audience.


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Re: Ok, so I have a speech today. Need support/advice. (Glossophobia) [Re: Toddo]
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Hmm, well it's good that it's that and not like, a 650 person lecture hall like all my fucking classes.

I don't know if my advice is gonna be all that great/helpful, but I would just say, pretend you're debating with them. They said some shit, and your "speech" is the response to what they said. Pretend they'll be making points after your speech as well.


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