I am completely with you. I also stopped associating myself with stuttering over a span of one week. That was 6 yeas ago. And I also forced myself to overload my brain. Just as you did. It was hard, but it worked. I don't see myself as a stutterer. I like this quote “It’s not who you are that holds you back from brilliant success,” Bailey says. “It’s who you think you’re not that holds you back. And sometimes we focus on who we think we’re not instead of who we are.” - Simon T. Baily