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I'm 32, and have lived with my stutter since I was 6. I like to think I have a decent amount of life experience with it! The *only* answer is that you need to accept that you have a stutter. This will be hard. Finding friends will get easier as you get older; once you're out of school and into further education or get into the workplace, you'll find most people grow up, gain maturity, and are much more willing to accept and befriend someone with a stutter. The same points will apply to relationships - these will also get easier as you get older. You'll need to learn to be patient. Yes; this will also be hard. Try to join conversations or groups - this is easiest when you share interests, and eventually you'll find people who value you. The other point to make here is that EVERYONE has things that will be difficult in their lives. Throughout life you will be challenged in ways you never knew you could be. Sometimes this will be your stutter, other times it will be unrelated to it. But it's when you accept that you will be challenged and that that will be a difficult process, that you will start to understand how those challenges actually improve you as a person! They make you more empathetic, more understanding, more knowledgeable, more resilient, or any other number of things. The solution sounds cliche, but is true; put yourself out there, put yourself into uncomfortable, difficult situations. Learn from them, become better by them, and you will start to understand that it's not your stutter that is the problem. I truly hope you can take this on board and understand it, as I wish it was something that I could have been told at your age. Best of luck!