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Daily Mirror
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Zahra Khaliq

'My stammer forced me into silence for years - I couldn’t even say my own name'

Telling somebody your name is usually a fleeting moment that requires little to no thought. But for 24-year-old Georgia Scott, it’s an ordeal - and it often leaves her paralysed with anxiety.

At the age of five, Georgia developed a stammer - a speech impediment characterised by repeated sounds, disruptions or stoppages in the fluency of speech.

The condition meant she was unable to answer the register at school, couldn’t say her own name and was forced into silence for the majority of her life.

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