I appreciate your attitude :) but we phrase things differently, you and I. Allow me to make a few remarks. - >be proud to be a stutterer I think I'd rather be proud of how I'm _dealing with_ my stutter. Stutter in itself is just a thing - it's not an accomplishment on our part. But managing it... that is. - >be happy to be one I'm definitely not happy to be a stutterer. But I'm happy that I've come so far, and that I'm able to perform lots of things without letting my stutter get the better of me. - >let it be a part of who you are as a human being This one's tricky. Do we identify with stutter - or do we posit it as something that's in our opposition? Depends on the interpretational nuance we use, I guess: • I definitely identify as a stutterer, but I don't think I can straightforwardly say that it's become part of me (or that this was what my efforts over the years were aimed at) - rather, I've learned to work with it, and achieve things for myself, even though it's there. • So is it in my opposition always? Yeah, maybe so, but perhaps it's rather that its _fact_ is something that has become part of me instead. A self-understanding incorporated, if you will. - But apart from this I'm sharing your sentiment. We can "be ourselves" even though we didn't ask for a stutter. It's a thing, it happens, it's there, but we're not just that.