Congratulations on the internship! > I can't change the way I talk, but I can sure as hell change the way I think about it This. All the way. I went to a speech therapist for about 1.5 years, and the #1 thing she told me and drilled into my head was *that*. She taught me some breathing exercises and vocal tricks to help minimize my stutter if practiced well. But the biggest aspect of my speech therapy was learning to accept my stutter. I made regular phone calls. I went into stores and interacted with clerks. We spun up conversations in earshot of strangers. And then we talked about what the *other* people thought? Did they seem to care? Did they laugh? Not really. Once or twice someone seemed to grow impatient or rude in the face of my stuttering, but even that, was that any issue of mine? No. I am who I am. If I stutter, I stutter. I might need some extra time to say what I need to say, and so what? We're every bit as bright (or dumb) as everyone else out there, our words just stumble on the way out sometimes. Don't project your own shame of your stutter unto others, because chances are 99% of them don't care if you show you don't care.