Hey! I’m an SLP student, I also have a stutter. 1. Limiting. I’m 24 right now, I didn’t start to really accept my stutter until I was about 22 and a half. For years I tried to “fix” it or change it. Nothing ever worked. I also spent many years in speech therapy, where my therapists would focus on strategies and they NEVER worked for me. When I was about 22 and a half I did speech therapy, and my therapist primarily worked on Mindfulness and Avoidance reduction and it literally changed my life. Like I had never heard someone tell me “it’s okay to stutter” until I met that one speech therapist. 2. Yea I have ups and downs. One day I’m speaking fairly easily and others I’m stuttering on every word. 3. I’ve had a stutter my whole life. My family’s use to it. When I was younger my parents tried what they could to help (by sending me to speech therapy). 4. I use to find myself like unworthy of a happy life? Or I’d hate myself bc I felt I couldn’t do certian things bc if my stutter. Hell, I still even think that way sometimes like WHY did I decided to become a SLP when I have a stutter you know? 5. I use to NEVER identify my stuttering as something apart of me. I’d try my best to hide it. When I met my last SLP she got me thinking about things very differently and now I totally say to people “hey btw I have a stutter” 6. I wish more people and SLPs realized that “strategies” are not a quick fix…there’s way more to stuttering than just the stuttering. There’s so much emotionally that comes with stuttering.