# If you're having a better time in front of a PC than in a bar/restaurant/sports club/spa/concert... there's something wrong with you. #

I stutter. I've been stuttering as long as I remember myself. I stutter less now than when I was a child, but when I was 14, I could spend weeks without speaking a word. When we had to learn and recite poems in school, I "recited" them by writing the text. Even now 4 times out of 10 my attempt to speak results in stuttering.

I underwent stuttering therapy thrice: when I was 6, 12 and 16. It had no results.

I got regular internet access when I was 18. Until that, I had almost zero communication - communication "in real life" requires oral speech.

With the help of Internet I can communicate with people without struggling with my vocal cords - in WoW, blogs, forums. And the big advantage of WoW is that you don't have to find the community - you log in and it's there. People are there. And these people share at least one of your interests. And I can speak with these people without fear of embarrassing them, without meeting their annoyed or pitying look.

I am still more comfortable in front of my PC than in bar or restaurant or club. But now I am more comfortable with people than 4 years ago. I am physically handicapped. I was socially handicapped _before_ I started playing WoW!

Now tell me that I'm wrong communicating through means accessible to me... if you dare.