20M. real world experience and working jobs is something that has helped me make tremendous strides in my fluency in recent years, so much to the point where i am able to have near-seamless full conversations. it was extremely nerve wracking at first but i was able to get the hang of it and i just celebrated taking off the little “speech impaired” pin i used to have on my shirt at work :) i’m assuming you’re going to be pursuing higher education sometime soon and that’s good news, college campuses are generally full of understanding and tolerant people :) most importantly, you’ll ever be happy if you live your life trying to fit into someone else’s mold. anyone that dismisses you for your speech impediment does NOT like you for you and was never worth keeping around anyway. they can go fuck themselves and scoop their eyes out with a rusty spoon☺️🤗