OMG this post looks almost the same as my boyfriend and me!!! He had tried speech therapy as I suggested. However, the effect is not as good enough as what we have expected, and he still avoids to talk about his stutter, unwilling to join in supportive groups. He is such a talented STEM Phd candidate and teacher (when teaching me and his cousins), and being a university lecturer and later a professor has be his hidden dream for many years. However, when he delivers public speech, he stutters so badly that he had trouble breathing and passed out twice. I felt so sorry for what he had experienced, and I am so proud of him because he is still trying so hard to conquer this obstacle. I like his stutter and in fact it is his stutter which attracted me years ago. I wish that one day he would not stutter any more so that he will realize his dream easier, but I definitely enjoy listening his breathy stuttering voice. I haven't told him I liked his stutter yet, because I feel like he would be angry at me adoring something that he wished so badly to get rid of. But I also felt guilty lying to him. Maybe I will try to find an opportunity to tell him, like when he refers to stutter and is not in a negative mood hahaha... (which is rare)