Were you able to do sports, play tag and other games, study in school, get good grades, ask yourself how does it destroy your childhood?   To stop caring, I had to first stop after the fact.  First I forced myself not to think about it the next day.  I thought about anything else when the thought came up.  I realized the more I worry the worse it gets so why bother, maybe there is a flip side that.  I also began not letting myself dwell on it after the stutter itself.  So I would stutter freely, for me it was more repetition to conserve my energy rather than try to force through it with all my might because I noticed when I was too tired to force anymore is when it ironically let go.   As that mindset continued i would not think twice about it.  Then with the greatest irony, I began saying things that I used to never be able to say like any other word, like talking with the wind, its like I forgot to worry over it, kind of like when you may say something ok but someone asks you to repeat it.  Doesn't matter what it is or what word or sound you thought you had trouble on, it could be none of those and yet...