For me, it’s self-acceptance. I had speech therapy into my late twenties and it didn’t help my moderate stutter. But at some point, I decided I was just going to do as much public speaking as possible. And the more I did, the less my speech bothered me. I’m an attorney now and I’ll block on a word or two in court. Life goes on. Whether I win or lose has nothing to do with my speech. The less real estate it occupied in my mind, the less it affected my life. I know that sounds facile but I believe it’s true: stutter boldly. One trick I learned from my daughter, who stutters like me: just tell people upfront that you stutter. It takes away the mystery and stigma. That takes away a lot of the pressure. The thing that makes stuttering different from other disabilities is that we blame ourselves for it. We must stop beating ourselves up.