Ordering food is hard for many of us who stutter. I've achieved fluency and ordering food still takes effort where most of my other speech is effortless. I tend to offer a few pieces of advice over and over in this subreddit. One of which is: STOP LETTING YOUR STUTTER MAKE DECISIONS FOR YOU. Big or small. This is your life. Every time you relinquish a decision to your stutter, it's death by a thousand cuts. Some are small, like not ordering the food you want. Others are larger. The larger ones are the ones that are more important. As those are the ones for which you'll relive and regret. But the small concessions form the habit, resulting in the larger ones. Starting right now, make the decision to never let your stutter direct your actions. It's going to be hard in the moment. *Nothing about stuttering is easy.* But a moment of difficulty is far preferable to a lifetime filled with regrets. At the end of the day, know that you chose the course of your day. That you didn't let your stutter dictate the terms of your life. \------ Some people define a moment as 90 seconds. I like the phrase "twenty second of courage," but for those of us who stutter, our blocks can last longer than 20 seconds. So I prefer to weigh the challenge of our stutter against a moment. Be strong, my brothers and sisters. You carry an unseen weight that others can't know. Take pride in the fact that you faced the day. That you prevailed. There is no shame in stuttering. The only shame is in acquiescing to our stutter. \------ Started drinking a little early tonight. Apologies if I was a bit too aggressive.