I feel very fortunate and grateful to have discovered this Reddit. So much generosity of spirit and support for, basically, strangers that we will never meet in real life. I am also saddened to read the tone of these lines…what we do well is to offer guidance, encouragement and perhaps challenge mindsets that may not be helpful coming to terms with a stammer.., Agreed, we all endure this difficulty in one way or another and probably have shared life experiences to a degree. It can take huge courage to take some kind of a stand against stammering, for me it was accepting it was there and all the avoidances (in an attempt to mask it) ultimately came at great cost. For me speaking about it in therapy was a game changer… For what’s it worth, there have been days I have been so challenged, I have contemplated the point of living…thankfully far and few between and when I was much younger. I have learned through toiling and much effort and lots of disappointment along the way that life can be and has been a place that I can impose myself, to become a version of myself I did not think possible 20 years ago… Let’s not get into debate and argument about who stammer is worse etc… Let’s just support one another….i have felt huge pride having read posts here over the year…private victories, overcoming obstacles, just naming the fear and horror with accompanying good will from strangers… I am most grateful to you all