Accepting the fact that you stutter doesn't mean you're okay with letting it take hold of your life. It's simply a first step of acknowledging you have a speech disorder in the first place. We all seek to be as fluent as we can, with maximum control over our speech - but no amount of training can prevent you from ever stuttering again, right? So what do you do when a block *does* happen? That's where self-acceptance comes in: it helps you deal exactly with these moments. It helps to remind you that a stutter is *not* the end of the world, and that you do *not* have to feel ashamed when it happens. Might take weeks, months of even years to get to a point where you accept your stutter - but for me it's just as important as fluency: it's just something you can fall back on when things **aren't** going according to plan