Stuttering use to hold me back from being myself until I accepted my stutter and starting not giving a shit what people thought about me and stutter. Cause I’m a pretty animated goofy guy and I want that to be who I am, I don’t want to be the quiet guy when that’s not who I am, so I changed how I saw my stutter and became more confident in myself even if I stutter pretty severely at times. It’s about your mindset, if you see yourself a certain way that’s who you’re gonna be, that’s how speech therapy changed me. My therapist taught me to accept me for who I am and not change myself for anyone. Stay true to yourself, don’t give people your good speech who don’t deserve it. I use to see myself as someone who couldn’t do much because of my stutter and that was holding me back then, till I changed how I saw myself with my stutter. And now I push myself to do many things no matter how bad my stutter is that day.