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I can believe that would make a difference. But... Have you ever heard that when blind people somehow recover their sight, they have actually higher chances of becoming suicidal? Have you ever noticed how women who are convinced that they need to loose weight in order to attract love, improve their sexual lives or whatever it may be, at some point may get to lose a crazy ammount of weight and look amazing... and yet still be treated like shit by men? There are so many cases like these, when we face problems that have very deep origins, but we refuse to dive within our own minds to see what is really happening, and it is easier to just give a concrete, rather simplistic answer. Which in the end is not helpful at all. I can fully see how waking up some day and suddenly not stuttering any more would make so many things easier. But at the same time, if we are unsatisfied with out love life, professional life, social life or what ever it may be, getting rid of our stuttering won't be the thing that makes a 180 degree turn in our lives and takes away from us the inner work we have to do from within. As a person who stutters, I am deeply thankful to my stutter because it forced me to be not so naive and it allowed me to see how cruel some humans can be and how easy it is for them to justify that horrible side from them -even in circles where you would expect to be able to let your guard down, like within your own family-, and at the same time it also led me to know that there are some people who can be truly respectful, and even if they will never experience what you go through, they will at least try to see the world from your point of view, and some times that's all you need. I deeply thank my stutter because it made me sharper, stronger and has showed me that it is OK for me to choose my own family and my own circle of people I let close to me. It doesn't mean that I never have moments when I struggle, but I guess I have made peaces with my stutter at this point, and I can only encourage everyone to do the same, because it will give you inner peace and will give you a sense of agency in your own story.