I'm 42 and I stutter. Fortunately, those around me understand it, and I don't really have problems with it anymore. Well, apart from the actual act of stuttering, of course. That's always more or less of an effort to get through. :) What I think we can say - looking around in a place like this, and looking at my own life history with the plight - is that we are typically _so_ hard on ourselves as stutterers. We tend to suffer more than we need to, because we think our stutter is the end of everything. But it isn't. Stuttering is just a thing that some have. We may make sounds that are a bit curious sometimes, but basically, people just care about what we say. The end result - *communication* - is what matters. Not the sort of "hiccups" on the way to it (if we generalize, all people have "hiccups" - ours are just of a particular and peculiar auditive sort). So yeah. I guess what I'm saying is... cheer up? Not everything is bad just because you stutter. Look for the good things instead. :)