It's all about what your stutter is to you. One of the most important shifts in mindset I've experienced is transitioning from how I felt before I was 17/18 and after. Growing up I was conditioned to believe I had something like a disease. A disease has a cure. The question was which cure would work for my disease... counselling... speech therapy... ellocution... drama... public speaking... public poetry... The one thing they all had in common was they where tools to fight a disease. Then I went on the Maguire Program for a residential weekend. It took being surrounded by other people who stuttered for the first time to 1. Realise how severe my own stutter was, and 2. accept that I never had a disease, and looking for a cure is pointless. Everyone involved was in recovery and some where completely fluent, others presented like myself... They highlighted the shame we feel being around other people who stutter, and how wrong it is. The only people who really know how it feels to think so much more than you can speak... that's us, dealing with the same thing. I took that experience and went and got a Drama degree, with my stutter, and now at 37 its still there but its not a curse. am mostly fluent, even completely fluent some days, but it's always there... owning it makes things like embarrassment other peoples problems. So it's what you make it. Good luck.