I should clarify. That deaf girl thing was advice for another poster with a stutter, but it might as well have been me. There were multiple top comments like that on there, that told him to to date deaf girls. So fuck asktrp they don't shit about this topic. Ok I'll admit I'm a negative person. I know that. But my negativity is based on my TRUE personal experiences. I never did bad in school so I never have that "academic anxiety". I can look at a hard test and say 'hey I've done this before it's easy' and do it. I can't do the same for stuttering. All I've had are shit experiences stuttering and that dictates my response. And you tell me to "get over yourself and work on it" how exactly do I do that? This sub keeps telling me I'll have this for the rest of my life and it's incurable so how tf do I work on it? Do I just live with it? If so that means I've accepted a lower standard of living and I just can't look myself in the mirror if that happens. I'm not lying to myself I'm just being purely honest based off my past experiences when I say that stuttering does greatly reduce my quality of life. Also why shouldn't I be like Aziz Ansari? I'd love to be like him in fact the closer I get to that the better. I can bet you right now his quality of life is significantly better then the albamans. Why should I be one aiming as low as the toothles Alabama Hick? Is that the standard I'm fighting for now? Fuck that. I'll aim as high as I can. To me that's my confidence. Having the will to look impossible in the eye and fight it even though I know I'll probably always be depressed the odds are almost all against me. Thanks for your response anyways.