What I’ve found most destructive is other people, even friends and family, saying that something is impossible because of my stuttering. It’s not true. The former chairman of GE stuttered. I met a psychiatrist who stuttered. And the former head of the Brookdale Hospital’s Department of Neuro-Ophthalmology, famed for being a great teacher and researcher, was a stutterer even while lecturing. He had only a mild and occasional stutter in his old age. President Biden still has an occasional slight stutter.