Stuttering is weird because the one way you can work towards overcoming it is by not caring about it. I stuttered for 35 years, and I used to beat myself up wondering why me, why do I have this curse? Then 5 years back, I had an epiphany when I was atttending a stuttering coaching: The reason I'm suffering so much is exactly because I think of stuttering as the biggest problem in my life. What if I stop thinking of it as a problem, and try living my life alongside it? As part of that coaching, I did lot of comfort level interactions with strangers in public (>100 interactions) over 6 months time period and this helped put things into perspective for me. I slowly began to realize that I was giving stutter power over me. Once I stopped caring whether I stuttered or not, magically other people stopped caring as well. Was it all in my head? Well mostly. Most of it was in my head. There were occassional a$$holes that give me hard time, but with practice, I stopped caring about them also. I cannot describe the 'freedom' I felt for the first time. 5 years ago, I let go of the need to speak fluently, and I ordered coffee, heavily stuttering, but taking my own sweet time. I felt so confident, and the barista extended the conversation, and I followed along happily. For the first time, I hadn't put negative connotation to my stuttering. Actually I wanted to stutter, just to see how people react to that. In doing so, I think took away the power from stutter. It became just another benign thing that do, and I had no reason to fear it. The less I feared it, the confident I felt, and I started breathing deeply, maintaining eye contact, speaking from diaphragm (instead of chest). Everything just started falling into place.... sweet freedom. I wish all pws experience this sense of freedom, at least once.... the freedom to stutter without trying to hide it. It is actually addictive. Then I found resources like [openstutter.com](http://openstutter.com) where lot of people like me decided come out, and start openly stuttering. These are doctors, teachers, politicians, executives, etc. They all say that they were living a lie, and once they openly started stuttering, life became infinitely and positively more enjoyable. And the best part? The confidence that I gained actually reduced my stutter. I still stutter, but I take my sweet tiiiiiiiime stuttering. I've forgotten how to take things personally (yes, I'm constantly surprised how I took certain situations personally in the past. Now I just brush it off ... not worth my time). My coworkers ask me for my secret to remaining calm in stressful meetings and performance reviews. I smile at them and say "I've learnt not to let anything affect my internal state of Zen. I won't be giving that privilege to anyone."