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I see your philosophy, and I understand it. I used to feel the same way. Acceptance is tricky with a stutter. A stutter is a speech disorder which doesn't have a known cure. And unfortunately fighting it won't change anything. Think of acceptance like this, you have a disorder in which nothing externally can be done to fix the problem. This speech disorder is ruining you life/ making it more difficult. Why is it making it more difficult? Because WE, ourselves, think its embarrassing or it's not socially accepted. So the problem is our own perception of our stutter. Nobody else gives a shit about your stutter once you are the person you want to be. When I 'fought' my stutter I noticed that my fight, for one wasn't changing anything, and two was disproving my life. Ignoring the word acceptance for a second. A person who is blind doesn't fight the fact that he or she is blind, they use their other senses to live and experience. It's the same with us, but the difference is we can actually speak, we just may talk long, or sound/ look weird while doing it. But these are all things that WE feel will impact other people around us. The truth is, if we don't make a big deal about it, nobody else will. So acceptance isn't accepting its there and saying, well I'm done now, can't cure it, I lose. It's actually saying, this piece of shit is only a very small part of who I am. It's a part of me, but there's hundreds of other things about myself that are much more worth bringing to the world, regardless of how I speak. That's acceptance. Once you know that your stutter doesn't have to hold you back because of how other people may perceive you, once you are who you want to be. Irregardless of your stutter. Then you can work on improving your life. The bigger of a deal you make of your stutter, the bigger it becomes, and the more you begin to lose the fight. When your life begins to improve because of this you begin to realise how small it actually is. If we spend enough time thinking and living as if its there and not emotionally attaching to it, you'll notice your fluency (even though its not important in this) will improve and so will your quality of life. Be who you want to be, do what you want to do, don't let how you speak hold you back. That's all.