I am 40 years old, and I did not "come out" openly and proudly about my stutter until I was 37. If I could go back to highschool knowing how much more free life is when you can 'scold' someone for making fun of stuttering words instead of feeling like I should just laugh along with them and not acknowledge it as a biological part of me, I would been able to focus a lot more of my self reflection on things that I can actually control instead of being ashamed, worried, and thereby (most cruelest of ironies) not being able to get to a mindset to improve my fluency sooner. But I guess I'm not sure if I was ready then. What I do know is that I never had anything to be ashamed of and I wish i truly knew that from day 1.