I have been fighting glossophobia my whole life and I couldn't graduate. So I prefer writing to talking. Do I admire people who are able to resist that crippling fear of putting themselves on a podium, yes. But I'm not ashamed that I still suck, and I'm not alone.
Someone said that "public speaking is the number one fear in America. Death is number two." So funny, yet so true. In fact, many a famous speechmaker throughout history was once terrified of public speaking, confessedly.
So I hate it when people ridicule others for their speech anxiety, or equating it to stupidity, and as if they themselves were born on a podium with silver microphones, when in fact their command of the art is but in the delivery of high sounding absolute nonsense.
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