This comment in particular is the one I was referencing: https://www.reddit.com/r/asktrp/comments/5f51rq/i_am_a_loser_i_just_cant_break_this_cycle/dahnqct/ I didn't see the one suggesting deaf women, and I'm definitely not reading through pages upon pages of self pity posts, but that's pretty absurd from my viewpoint. Most (if not all?) deaf people can read lips, and I know it'd sure as hell be a lot harder to read my lips and try to understand what I'm saying. Your ability to cherry pick the worst comments from threads like that is indicative of a problem though. You say you have confidence many times but the title of that post alone proves you don't. Have you heard of self-fulfilling prophecies? Affirmations? You're so negative to yourself that there's no way you can honestly believe you're a good person/love yourself. You're a man. Get over yourself and work on it. No one can do it but you. You don't have to be fucking Aziz Ansari to be able to get a girlfriend, you have to be confident and own your stutter. You stutter. You're going to stutter probably for the rest of your life to some degree, learn to accept it and accept yourself. Having a speech impediment doesn't "devastate your value as a person" at all. THAT THOUGHT PATTERN is what does. Expecting someone on the internet to have some magical cure isn't ever going to happen. You need to sit down, alone or with a therapist, and work it out. Work on accepting yourself. Write 3 things that went right that day in a diary every day, try to approach at least one person every day (escalate to more as you get more comfortable), look up affirmations and read them to yourself every day, force yourself to smile more. You think you're a worthless person because of something as stupid as a speech impediment? Have you not seen the retards raised in rural Alabama (no offense any to any Alabamans reading this) that can't string together a comprehensible sentence that end up with bangin' wives? Stop lying to yourself and others telling people you're confident then making posts like "I'm a loser" "I'm worthless" "I will never succeed" and looking for pity. Your stutter isn't holding you back, YOU are holding yourself back with your toxic mindset and constant approval seeking behavior. I think I've made it clear what my opinion on the subject is, so I'm not going to keep going into detail about it. Learn to accept yourself, keep lifting, keep going to school, learn how to dress yourself, and practice your social skills.