This is a really important line of thinking for us. I guess we all know that this is something we should do but integrating it for me was and still is a gradual process. It is very easy to fall into the trap of "othering" this thing we all deal with daily. I think we have all gone through a stage of waging war with our stutter in some form or another but I have yet to hear a case where that has done anything but make it worse. I was there not too many years ago. The thing that did it for me was realising that if I didn't have a stutter and it was instead a friend that did, I would never feel the need to tell them that they need to change. I don't think I could ever say that I wish I had \*never\* had a stutter either. Why? Well in this "alternate universe" where we have never stuttered who is to say that we are not experiencing a whole host of other issues. Those issues might seem so trivial and insignificant to us now, but that is because stuttering has made us so much more resilient and "thick skinned" compared to most people. Don't underestimate that resilience either, it will most certainly come in handy someday.