Crutch Words

Crutch words are my best friend... Seeing as my social skills are just about non-existent such words really help me cope with my harsh reality. The post about the six words that can ruin your sentence really resonated with me because I use them all... I frustrate myself because I know that I use these and other filler words like the usual umm and like. Others also never fail to mention that I use them, recently we had to do a quick speech in JROTC and someone tallied the number of times I said "umm", it was seventeen... An impressive number. 

When others utilize fillers I don't get too annoyed but it does bother me that it delays the conversation. I know it's hypocritical to say that but still... For some it actually works, for example during the press conference one of the participants would say umm a lot but it actually sounded good, made me wait on the edge of my seat to hear what he was conjuring up in his head in that split second delay.

Crutch words like literally are the ones that do begin to bother me at times. I'm more of a black and white person so I hate ambiguity, and when you tell me literally I think in a literal sense. Along with literally I also semi hate obviously at times. Mostly when it follows the answer to a question I was asking, if it was so obvious I wouldn't have asked... ;-;