A TikToker teased so badly for having a stammer that she was 'basically mute' until the age of 17 has grown in confidence - by filming herself ordering at drive-thrus.<br /><br />Brave Georgia Scott, 25, was diagnosed with a stammer when she was just five and doesn't remember a time when she didn't have it.<br /><br />She would always feel anxious about ordering in restaurants, so she used to order on touch screens in fast food chains to avoid the situation. <br /><br />But she's recently started posting videos of her ordering food and drink at places such as Starbucks, McDonalds and Costa to help her gain confidence.<br /><br />Now she says her stammer has improved from just filming the videos - and is helping to inspire others. <br /><br />Georgia said: "I was having a quite hard time and I just thought I needed people to understand more because it's very misunderstood.<br /><br />"I chose McDonalds for the first one because I thought I could either order my food on a screen or I can challenge myself and order at the drive-thru. <br /><br />"So I thought it would be quite good for people to see how much of a huge challenge it is to order.<br /><br />"It's just made me so much more confident and I'm so glad it can help others as well.<br /><br />"Making the videos has helped a huge amount because I'm now more self-accepting. <br /><br />"I'm not shy in a way anymore and I'm actually putting myself out there now. <br /><br />"It just makes people understand how having a stammer can be so challenging as well."<br /><br />It isn't known how a person develops a stammer, but experts believe it can be caused by inherited factors or how efficiently the speech areas of the brain are working.<br /><br />But Georgia said her first memory of her stammer is when she had to read from a book at primary school and her 'whole class laughed' at her.<br /><br />Georgia said she 'had quite a hard time' during her childhood because she wouldn't talk, so she was 'basically mute.'<br /><br />But when she was 17, she enrolled on a speech course and she decided to start talking more as she was determined to not let her stammer hold her back any more.<br /><br />Georgia recently quit her full-time job in advertising to post videos on her TikTok account, @ge0rgiatalks, to her 280,000 followers.<br /><br />She said the 'majority of comments are so nice' but said she has had 'some nasty comments' from people.
