I'm 25 and my parents never took me to a speech therapy. I started to speak very late in my childhood many thought i was dumb but after tips and tricks by parents i started to speak at the age of 5 . Then i started to stutter at the age around 7 they never took me to speech therapy as they thought that it will go away as i will age . But in reality it affected my social skills and gave me unnecessary anxiety. I have kind of accepted myself but there is something inside which wants to still fight this stutter . Hope of overcoming it sometimes feels like a curse.