I'm a software engineer at a big tech company where talking is very much a common, daily requirement (much more than I would have thought so). I have always and still very much do live my life in fear of my stutter in certain ways and some days more than others. Friends, family, my SO, ... etc are all people who will, despite spending significant amounts of time, will never see the "real" me as they always only ever see a "filtered" me through the lens of a stutter. But that is just one of the many "disabilities" that God / destiny / fate / the thing we construct / imagine onto the unordered universe has given me and it is up to me to accept it and move on, despite how much it can fuck over my life. Other people have addictions, crippling disabilities (my brother is also a stutter and has a rare genetic condition which has required his leg to be amputated when he was 10), traumatic life events as children, ... etc yet it is up to us to continue to live the life set out in front of, without caring at all about the outcome as you can control only your effort into things not whether they are successful or not. I suffered through dozens of interviews and quadruple that of rounds, failing most of them, and struggled to keep my sanity at times (I'm sure I will suffer similarly once I am inevitably laid off or something). After a while I sort of got used to it but it took MANY painful experiences that subverted my ego / confidence. You will not live a normal life just as many other people who suffer in their ways won't either. But a life worth living is not simply "normal". There are millions of people with "normal" lives who suffer from severe depression and end up committing suicide despite "having it all" because they couldn't be content with their life. I suggest reading a bit about logotherapy which is related to the idea that life has meaning (especially miserable ones) and '"\[we\] can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering" and that "everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances".' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logotherapy) It is through this meaning that we can stand any adversity since it is very commonly not the adversity which is difficult but the "why am I doing this" part that is difficult. I find once your mind is made up that suffering is inevitable then you have only your attitude towards it to change. This is especially true once you have kids and need to no longer think of yourself as a person but as an instrument to their well-being. I did kind of ramble I guess but these are some things that just spring to mind. Stuttering doesn't have a cure and even if it did there would be something else to ruin your life, trust me. Viktor Frankl, the guy behind logotherapy, survived the Holocaust and worked as a psychiatrist and noted how "funny" it was that holocaust survivors would be able to endure genocide and the eradication of their entire family / loved ones yet 50 years later struggle with an inexplicable anxiety from "nothing" (generalized anxiety disorder).