Rereading my post, I can totally see how it came across as "stuttering isn't all that bad. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and get your shit together!" and that's totally not how I meant it. If you look through my history, I'm regularly here in r/stutter offering advice. To anyone offended by that, I apologize! My comparison of wanting a boyfriend/girlfriend wasn't intended to be apples to apples, little comparisons can I feel. It was intended just as that, an example. I absolutely agree that stuttering sucks and affects your life in ways that fluent people take for granted: I regularly have to create presentations and publicly present them, and it's the worst. I went through my own bout of depression from my teens and mid 20s because of my stutter. Perhaps a better comparison (though again, still doesn't compare) is someone who lost their legs and is now in a wheelchair, depressed. Even if you get prosthetics, you won't have the same mobility as everyone else. It's important to practice every day to at least improve your mobility, and working on your own mental health is part of it. I hope that makes sense, and people are free to disagree, but I apologize for sounding like a dick in my first post.