From my perspective, vai, this is 100% true. I accepted the fact that I'm a stutterer. And I can live with it. I know it will be hard and I will have to face so many things, but once I accepted it, the trauma fades away. The Daily taunts from bullies don't bother me anymore, the daily depression doesn't bother me anymore. But what bothers me is that hope. That hope you get before telling a joke, that hope that says "haan. Bolde. You can say the joke. No problem" and then you get stuck in the middle of the joke while everyone is looking at you. That's trauma. The guilt of being an embarrassment, the guilt of wasting people's time and ruining the mode. Trauma goes away when acceptance comes, maybe not that far. But it does go away for a point in time. But if the hope keeps bringing it back, kese jiye? ......