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I also stopped going to speech therapy. I have a mild to moderate stutter so it wasn’t massively impacting my life to begin with and I just couldn’t do it any more. It wasn’t helping and I am old enough to where having to stutter reading children’s nursery rhymes in front of a therapist who is “celebrating my neurodiversity” became made my mental health worse. For you I would recommend trying 1 or 2 more and see if they have methods that work better for you. Each stutter is different and mine was basically a “this is something kind of annoying you are going to have to deal with your whole life.” To me it’s an equation of: Benefit of Speech Therapy = (How much you are bothered by your stutter x severity of stutter x likelihood of significant improvement) - (How harmful is it for your mental health + Cost + How else would you be spending those hours) For me, the costs outweighed the benefits. It was too damaging to my mental health for a mild stutter with a low likelihood for significant improvement. For you it might be different! But don’t be afraid it walk away, it doesn’t mean you haven’t given up. Reach out if you want to chat more.