I mean your friend isn’t wrong. If you let stuttering get between what you want to do or are passionate about then you are letting it win. Not saying it isn’t hard, but I’m a Forman now at a company and I would never ever in a million years think I could do that. Before this position my phone would never ring and would always txt and just mind my business. Now I get anywhere from 5-10 calls per day, talking with other contractors, etc.. It wasn’t easy to get to this level of confidence/ being comfortable about things, but I will say things that I used to freak out about are now just another task to finish. Not going to say I don’t get stuck or have to change the way I say certain things or sentences, but overthinking everything as a stutterer sucks immensely. And for the record none of my coworkers or friends realize the laps my mind makes when I’m presented with an obstacle or task. To them it’s just another thing, but for me I’m thinking about the worst scenario in my head of not being able to get it out and being on tight schedules sometimes will get my nerves going. I will say it won’t always be easy, but it will never be as hard as you make it on yourself when you stutter or get jammed up. It’s like personally I want me to speak perfectly, but it’s ok if I don’t. In the end you gotta figure out what’s more important to you in life, caring about others opinions or just being yourself (being happy, not putting yourself down because of how others may treat you, etc). Sorry to get on a soap box, but I’ve just came to the realization that I like me a lot more than I like random people’s opinions. I just wanna be happy and I’m tired of thinking that I can’t be and do what I want to do just because of stuttering. I’m just over it, even tho I still stutter I have become more fluent with doing what I didn’t want to do. Constant conflict with stuttering for me was the only way to become better. There’s just no magic pill to cure it, wish there was lol