@nukefudge Sorry for my late reply! Point form off the top of my head on how I think it has helped me: - Made me more unique and memorable. This has all sorts of spinoff effects. It's valuable in the social and professional marketplace to be memorable. Everyone I talk to once remembers me. There's something to be said for sticking in people's minds. There's a study showing even walking by the boss's office regularly raises your chance of getting a promotion -- you want to be memorable. Obviously, you don't want to be memorable for smelling like a garbage dump from a block away, but stuttering can be a positive in this way. - Made me kinder and more patient than I might have been otherwise (hard to guess with these hypotheticals). - Makes people respect me just for doing normal things. For example, I've often worked in a busy office of people making phone calls constantly and whatnot. For the boss to see me working the phone while someone else who doesn't stutter floats on the computer, that's beneficial to me. They're thinking wow, this guy doesn't let anything stop him from pursuing his goal. If you don't let your stutter stop you, you become a model for everyone else. A lot of people can't imagine being able to put themselves out there with such an obvious issue and respect you greatly for it. - Taught me to value what matters in life. Again, this is a process everyone goes through in some way. But for me, stuttering was at the core of shaping how I viewed the world and how I grew mentally and spiritually. The fundamental aspect of that is stuttering doesn't matter. There's so much more important in life. I don't have time or energy to be worried about stuttering. - Many small things, such as I believe helping directly in my field of work, journalism. I believe my stutter puts a lot of interviewees at ease and makes them want to help me out (provide names, photos, info, get back to me, etc). I maintain very good relationships with just about everyone I meet and part of that is from the stutter and part from how the stutter has given me a polite, patient, innocent kind of personality that I think people want to help. Again, everyone develops through life, and everyone has issues to work through. So it's hard to say what would be different if I didn't stutter.