> I just want the same opportunities to grow as my peers, and I feel so stuck in life because nobody will give me a fair chance… You can start by giving yourself a fair chance. You can't affect how the world responds to you, but you can control how you respond to the world and how you respond to yourself. Most of the things you listed can't be blamed on stuttering. It is hard to get a job and for some jobs hiring teenagers is cheaper than hiring someone with good experience, because of salary. I can really relate on how people doesn't seem to get you, give you a chance, or that they doesn't really know you. I blamed that on stuttering my whole life and I still sometimes do when I get frustrated. But what I recently realized is that it wasn't my stuttering that was causing people to get a bad perception of me. It was my insecurities and my anxiety. Really most people still had a good or neutral perception of me, but in my mind I thought that everybody hated me and that I was stiff, boring and really awkward. Sure sometimes I was, but that wasn't because of my stuttering. Sure the stuttering made it worse, but that was because I allowed stuttering to make my insecurities and anxiety worse, which made me act more reserved. Stuttering is a disability that affects your speech. It doesn't have to affect your behaviour or mental well being. It is hard, but I think is it possible.