For info I'm 19M 1. The question is a bit vague, but overall it's always been a very bad experience. I'm a human, and I'm not able to properly do the main thing humans are supposed to do, talking, I'll let you guess how annoying is that in daily life. 2. I think my stutter got worse during puberty, since then it didn't change much I believe. 3. Everyone just pretends it doesn't exist, yet I do see them with awkward looks when I'm struggling to get a sentence out. It's an elephant in the room for some reasons. I had like one friend during middle school that did mention it to me and used to tease me a little bit on it, and strangely I enjoyed it. It was like "Yeah you have this thing that kinda sucks, I recognize it and it's okay, so let's just laugh about it together". Now ofc I wouldn't be as happy if it were just strangers teasing me on it, that would be just rude and annoying. 4. Obviously it's always been degrading to my self-confidence. I know that I was already shy before I even realized I had this impediment, but after I realized it, it got even worse. This and autism worked together to make me into a very socially anxious being, with degrading social abilities. 5. That would be more of a footnote than a main thing on my character description. I don't want to be defined by a deficiency of my brain, I like to think I'm more than that. 6. I wish more people were aware of how much of a big deal it generally is for us. Some of us genuinely suffer from extreme and serious psychological issues because of it, sometimes this subreddit straight up looks like r/depression or r/suicidewatch. You can't necessarily guess it from the outside, you just see some guy struggling a bit with words, but inside this guy can be dying of shame. Thank you for your interest in this field, hope I helped.