So this probably isn’t what you want to hear but the stutter doesn’t have to define you. I spent so long being scared of my voice (stuttering and lots of frozen words makes conversation extremely difficult) but now that I’m in college, I have learned to focus on my brain and not my voice. I’m already connecting to a professor about research, on the eboard of a club that means a lot to me, and that is all because I told myself there’s bigger things in life than my stutter. There was this one time I went to office hours with a professor and she told me how much she loved seeing me act as a leader in my lab group and always raising my hand in spite of my stutter and she sees past this and knows that I’m intelligent which made me almost begin to tear up right then and there. Having a stutter is extremely difficult and painful and people do not understand why you’re like this which is incredibly isolating but if you put yourself out there and make it seem like you’re not bothered by it, no matter how stuck your words and face gets and how quiet the room becomes, your courage for powering through those tough times really shines and and says more about you than anything. I am tired of being depressed about my stutter so I’m trying my best to live a positive life and you should too. The longer you dwell on your stutter, the more it eats you alive and that monster doesn’t deserve to take over your life. I let it do so for too long and now I’m standing up to it and I couldn’t be happier. I want you to feel the same way and I wish you the best. ❤️