>I like to speak with people Doesn't sound like you're scared to speak, then. Otherwise, I think you'd say something like "I hate speaking with people", right?... But yeah, being scared of stuttering can take over so much that it makes us avoid speaking. I think we can tell the difference between the two fears if we pay attention and think it through, though. Besically, I think if we can be happy about having had a conversation, even though it taxed us due to the fear of stutter, it means we aren't afraid to talk. We're just hard at work due to the stutter. - Whether or not things would be completely different without the stutter is not a question I can make proper sense of. I mean, it sounds easy enough to think about - but once we start imagining a world where something has changed... what's to stop it from changing a bunch of other things too? I try to avoid thinking about stuttering in that way, because I think it doesn't serve a proper purpose.