My 2 cents: Venting is good. However, find an online stuttering group, a speech therapist, a life coach, or other entity or community to help you address your feelings toward your stutter. I'm 54, been through all of life's ups and downs, and the downs were so bad it led to me holding a .38 in my right hand and walking under an overpass to end it all. It took a homeless man that I never met at midnight to tell me that I have a purpose in this world. I stopped fighting my stutter and just embraced it (don't confuse embracing with giving up) and MOST importantly, I did not care what people thought of my stutter.........let me repeat that........I do not care what people thought of my stutter. Once I reached that threshold, a whole new world opened up. One cool thing about stuttering is that it shows you who people truly are. If they are negative, mocking you, laughing at you......that's on THEM, not YOU. It's their ignorance and lack of understanding. You do you! Live your life and IGNORE those who choose to break you down rather than lift you up. Life is HARD. Stuttering is HARD. People are CRUEL. BUT PWS (People Who Stutter), we are creative, resourceful, resilient, and courageous. Other people's opinions of you are of no matter to you. I'm a national trainer traveling the country 2x a month, facilitating 4 hour PowerPoint presentations to medical professionals.......all with a stutter.