Times when you were scrutinized

I think back on the past, and there have been several times where my actions actually were scrutinized and it affected my anxiety a lot.

One example is back in high school one of my friends would always scrutinize my pronunciation of words, and one in particular was sixth. We could be in a group and I would say something like "Back when i was in sixth grade..." and he would quickly interject and say "its not sixth its SIXTH" and then i would say ok, sorry sixth, and he would continually correct me. Another example was when I called my aunt (who I rarely saw) Laura, when her name was Lara. My grandparents always got frustrated at this, and continually corrected me. This added a lot to my anxiety, and I am afraid of saying certain words, and also peoples names.

Can anyone relate?

I can relate 100 %

I have always had problems pronouncing the letter r and i believe that this is part of the root of my problem. If you don't know what i mean, i use to say v o'r w instead of r because i could not pronounce it, i still have trouble pronouncing it but not half as much as i had at a young age. Also i have trouble prounouncing th so when i say 'teeth' for instance it sounds more like i am saying 'teef'

This has caused me a lot of turmoil through my life. At primary school and high school other kids would try and get me to say words just to laugh at me, so my reaction was to talk as little as possible, then i was called a freak because i didn't talk. Funnily enough it was mainly the girls who teased me about it and i believe that's why i am so shy with girls my age, but not so much with older females.

My mother used to watch me when i had to make phonecalls, and got so nervous i used to mumble and mix up my words and she used to correct me.

So yeah THANKYOU VERY MUCH MY DEAR SCHOOL MATES! :evil: