Great post. You have given some simple practical advices. What you said in the beginning, about other people reactions, is plain truth. Maybe it's hard and scary to understand, but the fact is that it is true. Focusing on others more than you focus on yourself is simply crazy. Me myself, I have been struggling with this for years, but I'm not afraid to say I know I have done mistakes. And at least, I still reconize the fact I should not focus on others more than I focus on myself. Life is hard, and very often you have to analyze, identify and take the good stuff you find on something, and leave the rest. It's probable that your post may contain harshness to some, but if it contains many true things and some great advice, that's mostly all that matters. Just to make it more clear, I stutter, since I was a kid. During my life, I also had to face shyness, unconfidence and most importantly religious brainwashing. After 5 years of difficult growth, I decided to leave a religion I would have given my life to, before. Now I live surrounded by people who focus 100% on this religion, and I'm emotionally abused daily by them. Physical abuse happened ocasionally too. But I've never returned to that religion, and never revert on my decision. I had been fighting my past for a long time, I couldn't accept I was religious, shy and unconfident. But now I learned to accept it. You can totally accept stutter. It's hard, but it's possible.