I’m in my 40s. Severe stutter. Some weeks I can’t get a sentence out. I’m thrice married, have wonderful young-adult children getting ready to start college and I work a job with tons of communication, person, phone, video conference and even presentations. Even being as stutter-positive as I am, I still have terrible days with it and can get down on myself! Sometimes I can string together weeks of near perfect fluency. It comes and goes and I stopped caring about it at the end of the day. Sometimes I can have a moment though. Just keep pushing. Find your people. Max out every other area of your personal life! You have full control over your hygiene. It should be perfect. You have full control over how you dress. It should be clean and well fitting. You have full control over your level of fitness. You may be years behind on this one, but there’s no time like the present, and you have full control over it. We can’t always control our stutter, so to even the playing field we must max out what we can. Even handwriting. Since we often make people wait to hear what we have to say, make sure the content of what you have to say is rich and worth waiting for. You have full control over this too. Not interesting? Start reading the classics and traveling. Get some stories to tell. Etc