🤣! I also thought speech therapy was like that because that’s how it was when I was younger and I’m so glad I went back and it was so different, I was so confused in my first few sessions of the most recent speech therapy cos wasn’t what I was expecting I thought it would be helping me to be able to physically say the words I struggle to say but it was more like - I always get a latte instead of cappuccino because I struggle to say cappuccino but I hate lattes and it makes me so sad when I end up with a latte which i don’t like instead of the coffee I wanted - what is the worst thing that can happen if I say cappuccino and stutter.. they won’t understand or are confused or get it wrong, then I just tell them again and say I have a stutter, if they laugh at me or anything (my worst fear) then they are a shitty horrible person and it’s nothing to do with me what their reaction is - things like that. It was nothing to do with changing how I speak but more on changing my mindset about why I hide my stutter so much or avoid situations I know I will stutter in, which i didn’t realise at the time but was more of a problem than the actual stutter ! Now I always get a cappuccino & never second guess it or stutter when asking for it because it isn’t a worry and I know if I do stutter a bit I’m not too stressed about it and will just ask for it anyway because if the worst happened and they laughed at me (which they most likely would never) that’s not on me it’s on them being a shitty person - it’s things like that are the biggest impact even if you don’t realise how much it affects you or your behaviour. I still stutter of course and sometimes it upsets me but it’s so much rarer than it used to be that I get upset or embarrassed or stressed out now about stuttering, for work I make phone calls every day and rarely stutter or get stressed out about it I just take myself to a private area and it’s so fine I never ever thought I’d be able to have a job where I have to speak on the phone, it’s so sad to look back on myself as teenager and how avoidant I was of situations and how much I didn’t realise it impacted me and you are so young still I really hope you enjoy your teenage years and don’t let fear around speaking stop you from doing anything you want to !