>do you not feel like it's accepting a vastly lower standard of living? Yeah. I know that my life would be very different if I was fluent or if I could take a pill that made me fluent. When I first learned of speecheasy and saw all the before and afters and great "testimonials", I could barely fall asleep that night. I started to envision a new life, worlds apart from where I was.I would be so productive, engaging, a force of a person. A very small voice in the back of my head gently asked after a day "what if it doesn't work?" but I put that out of my mind. I did a trial of speecheasy and it wasn't the miracle it was sold to be. Now, most people would expect me to be absolutely crushed, dreams squashed, suicidal even. But I wasn't, I just went back to my life and didn't think about my other life ever again. And I think that living with a stutter does that to you, you kind of accept shitty things that happen, you don't anticipate the *best*, you're used to taking a backseat. Now that I've experienced major depression, I can safely say that having a stutter is like having walking depression your whole life. You just go through the motions, you're NOT a force of a person because the self consciousness/shame is always present. You're not the star, most likely not a supporting role, but an extra. It's low self esteem. Sorry that my response is so dark, it was a dark question though. Hopefully younger readers can learn from this somehow. I guess I'm just not in a positive place right now, but it's not really all to do with stuttering. Just things. Have a nice night, everyone.