I stutter while talking to myself, I stutter while talking to my cat, I stutter while whispering, I stutter while screaming, I stutter even sometimes while singing, and I even stutter in my dreams. I'm 31. I've tried every "solution" and "quick trick" you can think of. I've gone on medication, I've had years of therapy, both speech and psych, and I had to work my hands to the bone to afford them. Hypnosis? Done it. Meditation, breathing exercises, learning new languages. I've even gotten certain teeth pulled because I heard an anecdote about someone who was 'cured' of their stutter by doing this. I can't even be insulted that a *teenager* is convinced they've found the answer to all of our life-long problems and that solution is to merely "try harder", because honestly? It just makes me feel sad for them. I'm always going to be a stutterer--nothing is going to rid me of it. Not teeth-pulling, not meditation, not yoga, not astronomically expensive therapy, not tea or Xanax or super happy thoughts. This isn't me being lazy, or negative, or giving up, or not trying hard enough. This is the acceptance I've come to after years and years of believing that I just needed to "try harder" to be normal. I already am normal. I have a stutter, I am a stutterer, but I'm perfectly okay. I'd rather embrace this part of myself than spend my life raging against something that will always be there. What a waste of time and energy. I can't think of a worse attitude than that, personally. If someone needs to tell themselves that they can 'cure' their stutter through nothing but pure iron will and confident thoughts, then more power to them. Whatever makes people happy and comfortable with themselves. But don't come preaching it at everyone else as The One True Way, or implying that it's all in our heads.