Bingo. When I was 16,17 I made a similar deicison about my height and my stutter. I'm now 30, and I do not regret that decision in the slightest. What people do a lot is they anticipate the reaction of other people, now this makes sense as we're social beings who want social connections but with something that you feel negative about being visible to others it can be very easy to fall into a pattern of self-defeating thought and make yourself too anxious to really do anything. Other people read that anxiety, and react accordingly. If you decide that you don't care about your stutter, your height or whatever and continue to tell yourself that then eventually, one day you don't care. If you don't cue people in to the negative reaction, I find they don't do it. **If you demonstrate that it's not a problem, people will fall in line.** Good going, keep on with that line of thinking -- at least in my exp, it works.