I myself had speech therapy throughout elementary- high school and speech therapy never helped. Ive beat my stutter a year ago. I’ve been suggesting the book that has helped me and can literally help everyone improve and eliminate their stutter but they’re so against it. There’s literally video evidence of hundreds pws that are improving their speaking abilities but they choose to ignore that fact. I do agree with you, sometimes you have just have to talk and ignore what other people think. Others have bigger problems than to care about your stutter. I’m all for speaking in situations where you feel uncomfortable because after doing it for a while you build that confidence of not giving a dam. That’s what I did but I also had a plan when approaching those situations. Now I’m able to say o can speak anywhere and everywhere without a stutter and not sounding funny or odd