I wanted my first post on reddit to be a separat post, but after reading this i just have to reply... I can relate to what the Threat creator written and eliquently described 90%... This is exactly how I feel... "Accepting being a stutterer/stammerer" I have a very severe stuttering problem...with all the difficulties and hardship most stutterer face...the main problem that top them all is the emotional impact and realization of not accepting this problem as part of yourself... Seeing other non-stammere speak so effortless...i just cant make myself accept being a stammerer...and the huge emotional conequences that follows that conviction !!! Why cant i speak like them ? Imaging if i dont stutter...there will be no problem or nothing that can stop me from achieving anything in life ? I keep daydreaming and in the process loathing myself while comparing it with my friends colleagues...all the negative emotions keep roaming intensily in my mind: jealousy, self-loath, helplessness, depression and so on... ... My life is on standby for the last 11 years...i got burned out and gave up...succumbed to bad habits like intens gaming and virtual achievements...thanx god nothing else... .... For one month ago something awakened in me...felt energy and urge to come back to the real life...stopped gaming all together...and i'm determined to face my demon (stuttering) again...i have too...thats why while i browsing the net about Gaming addiction Came across r/StopGaming...and by accident discovered r/stutter... .... Words of advise for myself and you... Never Give Up with all those trauma i've been exposed to...I have NEVER once hated myself for being ME !!!...Because I know being human is much more greater and complex for it to be reduced and conceptualized to mer speech handicap... I hate being a stammerer...but i dont hate myself...but i know that i have to change that emotion...thats the only way for me to get inner peace... .... Thank you guys for this awesome community...its like being home reading all those threads... ... Excuse my poor language...english is my 3rd language