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You can and will be able to talk normally! You’ll hear a lot of people tell you that it’s impossible to overcome stuttering. I can tell you if you stutter due to anxiety, low self esteem and other outside factors and not from a brain injury, then anybody can overcome stuttering. I got my stutter when I finished high school. Started mostly around authority figures, but then progressed to every aspect of my life. It was bad for about 6 years. I even stuttered at my own wedding. I had it bad. There was never a time that it wasn’t on my mind. Now I’m about 95 percent fluent and don’t think about it much. I still work at it everyday. And I WILL be 100%. The main thing that helps is to hear fluency and not to hear disfluency. Practice reading every day for at least 30 minutes with obnoxious pronunciation. The more you hear your self sounding amazing the more you will speak fluently. I recommend the book “stuttering and anxiety self cures by lee lovet”. Not going to lie I was against it at first because it seems scammy and I’m pretty sure he fakes the reviews but it really is fantastic and way different than any speech therapy. I bought the phone version so I don’t have to walk around with the book. I’m a 911 paramedic who talks on a radio every day. I talk to doctors, and grieving family members every day and rarely do I ever have problems. I’ve just about overcome it. But I will say, it’s hard. Overcoming stuttering is hard, so is stuttering. If you put in the work you will overcome it! Best of luck brother