It’s great that you don’t blame yourself anymore and that has lifted a weight off you. But it is possible to recover from stuttering. Take a look at John Harrison’s book “Redefining Stuttering”. John Harrison stuttered for many years and pretty much fully recovered. And has been involved in the National Stuttering Association for years. You can find a free link to “Redefining Stuttering” if you Google it. He really goes into the mind of someone that stutters and begins to get at what needs to change for fluency to happen. With that I would highly recommend the Dave McGuire Program. They have an inexpensive self-help book on Amazon called Beyond Stammering: Getting Good at the Sport of Speaking. At the very least, you can make significant progress. You just need to begin facing fears of speaking and replacing old memories with positive ones. Believe in yourself, you can do more than you think! Stuttering is in many ways self induced. We induce it by playing our feared situations and “failures” in our head over and over again. And stopping ourself from speaking because of fear of judgement. It may debilitate temporarily, which is a good reason to receive government assistance while a PWS regains confidence in their speaking. But don’t get locked in to the idea that your stuttering can never allow you to do what you want. We all have “bad”, “better”, or even “good” days with our speech, so it’s all about tapping permenately into the feeling we had on our good day. If a word can be said good on one day, then it’s possible to tap into that same mindset again. It just takes lots of positive mantras, self-love, increased assertiveness, feeling of power and purpose in life, etc. Along with adjustment to speech mechanics such as breathing