did you experience speech difficulties at school (telling)?

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Did you experience speech difficulties at early school years? I did, especially in expressive speech. I hated to describe a picture, to give a verbal answer, to retell, to write stories and did everything to avoid it or asked someone to do my job or sought a source to copy from.

Yes but more in high school. It still persists today, at university.

I could not speak for more than a week on quite a few occasions in high school. I was not even able to answer my name in the register.
Teachers always thought of me as the brainy but rather scary type. One teacher would always call me 'the dark horse' and 'silent professer', which obviously made the bullying worse.

I must mention that I did not stutter and was not totally mute, just did not like some types of exercises. Finally I could complete them if it was writing, but it takes me a long time.

I did as well. Especialy with summarizing something or giving an example. I had a hard time with questions like "can you describe your weekend trip?" or "give a short description of..."

It was worse in middle school, but in highschool teachers gave me more crap for it. They always said I "should have figured it out by now" Or said exasperatedly "It's not that difficult" and i understand that to them it wasn't, but to me it was terrible. I use to wish i was mute...

I was a terrible stutterer. My mind always worked too fast for my mouth, or that's the way I saw it. I have no memories at all before the age of 5 so I don't know when I started to speak. I had speech therapy in the 4th grade with 3 or 4 other students(no other stutterers, just monotone type speech problems). I don't remember if it made any difference. I don't stutter much now unless very stressed in a verbal situation. Oddly enough my present boss has the same stutter all the time that I had as a child. It's interesting reliving that experience with him.

I don't think I had any more than the normal anxiety someone would have in a public speaking situation. I do remember that my heart was pounding as if I had just run a marathon and I perspired under my arms.

I hate speaking in front of class. Otherwise it's only that I before the 3rd grade tended to mix up "f"- and "s"-sound, and couldn't get the "sh", "sch" "ch" and whatnot right.

I was quite when I was in the Infants but as the years went on I got louder and louder by the time I was in Secondary I was quite talkative and loud

Sort of....

I also have such difficulties, not only in school or university, but generally in life. I am oversensitive to sounds and evil voices of Structures, which make me sick...

To some degree I hated it because I found it very hard and frustrating, but I think my communicative problems were far more severe than the speech issues, because it would never have crossed my mind, nor would I have been able to, actually go and ask someone else to do it for me.