I think you should read this.

I think you should read this. I watched a movie with a guy that had Tourettes Syndrome, that wanted to be a teacher. True story based on a real person. There is a scene where the young kid with Tourettes, let's call him Jacob, goes to a Tourettes support group. His mom basically took him there as a way to understand more about himself and feel empowered and not alone. The scene that unfolded shook me to my core. The mother and Jacob quickly realise that, the other kids with Tourettes there are basically retarted. And here is the deal: Not because they were, but because their caregivers involuntarily, stuck in their own bias and what they made out of their childrens condition, thought of them as that and treated them as such. They took them out of normal schools and home schooled them, treated them as handicapped etc etc and the children responded to that, and became that. Jacob and his mom realized. Jacob said he doesn't want to become like that and they left never to return, providing him that way a normal successful life. What I'm trying to say is, the world around you most probably whether you want it or not, based on ignorance, stigma or whatever might put you in a certain box, think you can do certain things and put limits on you, that in reality aren't true. It's just them not knowing. You have to believe in yourself. You just have a FLUENCY disorder. You aren't retarted. It's just an accent for God's sake. 1 part of you. You most probably have so many other things going for you. You can have a successful career. You can have friendships and a fulfilling social life You can have a loving significant other and a healthy family. Don't let that one thing stop you. If you isolate it, it's much more manageable. It's easier to simply have a funny speech, rather than no social skills, no sexual experience, no confidence, social anxiety, and then depression, low self- esteem and then dropping out of university or underperforming at work and becoming miserable and feeling like a failure and committing suicide or worst case scenario, not living your life to the fullest. The only way forward is confidence and working hard on your goals. Stuttering requires bravery from us, this is the life we have been given. It's going to make us strong and resilient. It's not for cowards. Nobody is perfect. And whoever thinks this is mentally ill, said by my University Psychiatry Professor himself. It's hard but it is going to be so worth it in the end, and we are all in this together. When years come, and you are in your deathbed you are not going to give a shit about what that person said about you, or if he/she thought you are cringe or dumb or anything. You will not give a damn about them. So, go live your life the way YOU want to. It only takes one person to know that it is possible, and there are many stutterers out there that have successful lives. They aren't better than you, and they had the same problem as you. I wish I had realized this earlier. I'm changing for the better, and I hope I'll see some of you in this path too. Self pity isn't serving anyone.