Acceptance doesn’t necessarily have to mean that you stop trying to improve your speech. I guess basically not letting the fact that you stutter bother you is going to make working on it easier. If you have a mental breakdown or a panic attack or feel ashamed and guilty about it every time you try to speak, it’s only going to regress your progress. Stuttering in itself is nothing to be ashamed of, but we should recognize that and still strive to be better at communicating verbally. The worst part about stuttering for me is not being able to communicate and express myself to my fellow man in a fluid motion. It felt like for a long time that I had lost my right to do that, and attempting to do so would only lead to more embarrassment and shame. It’s gotten better for me, I just kept opening my mouth. I have a job that requires me to be a face to face salesman at times, and my sales rates are pretty good. When I was in middle school it was so bad I used to make my friends order my food for me because I couldn’t talk. I didn’t open my mouth in school because I’d be ridicul