This is a mentality I used to agree with; however, everyone has their own “thing” they are dealing with. When it comes to the fear of public speaking, we are not their body, we do not know what is going on with them that causes that fear. Putting that into perspective, if you feel this way, how incredibly empowering is it if YOU, the person who stutters has no fear of public speaking? When I was in my first year of college, I had a biology class where we had to do an “article review”. Find a science/biology based article, stand up in front of the class and present it. I was freaking out the night before and the morning of. When class started the professor asked for volunteers to go first. NO ONE raised their hand. In that moment something possessed me and my hand shot up. I went in front of class, stuttered my butt off…and I mean hard blocks. The article was something about flies..hell if I know….the class probably didn’t understand me because my stutter was so bad. I eventually got through. It and sat down. The whole class was silent. The professor asked for a volunteer to go first…….no one raised their hand. Finally a woman in the front row raises her hand and says, “Well if HE can do it, there is no reason why I can’t! (nodding her head in my direction) After she went everyone else in class started volunteering.