People don’t understand. They say things like slow down, take your time, think things through. The fact is they have no clue how speech works or they wouldn’t say such dumb things. We don’t choose to stutter and it’s the one thing in life we’d give up anything to fix. Statements like that hurt and stick with you. Something that they won’t even remember saying but you’ll never forget it. You have to rise above the “noise” because that’s all it is. It can only hurt if you let it. You stutter because you try not to stutter… you try so hard every day to speak with perfection and it causes more blocks. People who are cured or become more fluent have learned to stop trying so hard. The saying the harder you try the harder you fail fits with stuttering. Have to just be you and if you stutter then that’s ok. Good luck