The first paragraph I relate to all because of my stammer and also speaking to others with stammering, also I have diagnosed anxiety and depression. Being in SLP there’s been more of a shift between treating the stammer as taboo or something that needs to be changed and then treating the stammer as acceptance and opening the conversation about stammering. I’m learning to embrace my stammer and see it as a part of me. It’s hard even now, with 19/20 years of stammering, but I know my stammer is going to be with me forever, so a part of it has been forced acceptance.