No, I completely understood what you said. This is the classical approach. Make the stuttering go away so we can be like everyone else. The problem is that it doesn't go away. You can manage it with various techniques but it's not going away. And so what happens is you're continuously attempting something and failing at it. And because you're treating it like something that shouldn't be allowed, you inevitably start to feel shame and embarrassment anytime it happens. And when you avoid challenging situations, it only makes it harder to tackle a similar challenge in the future. You do this long enough and these challenges become the psychological equivalent of climbing Mount Everest. This is simply a recipe for unhappiness. I have lived it and I'm telling you from experience, it's better to do the hard things. Because it works the opposite way of avoidance. When you challenge yourself, at first it feels like you're attempting climb Mount Everest without an oxygen tank. You'll get a little banged up. But then you do it again and again and again and before too long, it starts to get easier. And you'll start to find yourself not so intimidated by the phone or personal introductions even if you do stutter. Eventually, you'll have gained a ton of experience dealing with these situation you currently want to avoid. You will have learned more effective ways of approaching them but also you will have experienced engaging with the world while having a stutter, being embarrassed, and finding that the walls didn't come crashing down around you. You will have learned to be stronger and more resilient as a person. It's like anything else, the only way to get good at something is to do it and keep doing it. And the only healthy way to minimize stuttering is to get out into the world and talk to people and learn not to give a shit about stuttering. There is no doubt that feelings of apprehension of stuttering almost always guarantees stuttering will occur. As you shed that apprehension it doesn't completely eliminate stuttering but it makes things much easier and less stressful. So, I hope you'll at least think about what I said. If I could go back in time, I'd do all the hard things I avoided. I'd make that oral presentation instead of asking the teacher for alternate assignment. I'd go up to that pretty girl and introduce myself. I'd order the thing I really wanted in the restaurant instead of the thing I thought I could say. I'd tell my parents not to order for me. I'd do all the things you want to be able to do without stuttered speech **with** stuttered speech. It's the only way to find peace and happiness.