(sorry for making this so long i dont even know if all this is relevant) When I was super little like 2 or 3 and I used to play at this little boy's house and he had a super noticable stutter and my mother told me that I mimiced him and thats how I got my stutter cuz I started talking like that yk? then it wasnt until I was around 7 or 8 until my parents TOLD me about this stutter thing because until then I didnt notice anything was wrong, so then I got super conscious about it and from then on the stutter started getting worse. So I don't think stuttering FOR ME was caused by genetics I was "mimicing speech patterns". And yes my stutter did change my personality a lot as an 8 year old kid, I was more introverted and was the type of kid who spoke only when spoken to and my stutter affected me a lot because of family members ALWAYS mentioning it and trying to remark on it and I don't think that really helped because it just made me more conscious. After my sister was born and actually started speaking fluently, I slowly started changing to an extrovert and I sought out to talk more and make friends., and I did succeed 😁. I have had fluctuations throughout my stuttering journey like having facial tics, repetitives, blocks, covert stuttering, prolongations and I've accepted all of them(Currently facing only blocks. Nevertheless, as an extrovert, I wouldn't say that my stutter has had any less of an impact on me mentally or that it had reduced. But, it has certainly helped me come to terms with. My parents scared me into thinking that everyone will only make fun of my stutter if I don't overcome it (obviously it didnt work). I am currently in high school and no one in many many years of school has bullied/made fun of me, and I am glad that I was brought up in an accepting and understanding school. My friends are super supportive and try not to remark on it or bring it up and has accepted it and thats simply amazing. My mother wants me to take speech therapy since "if she could have fixed it, she would have fixed it by now" and I hope that would have convinced my father 🤞🤞🤞 PRAY FOR MEEEE I REALLY NEED THIS