It’s easy to say stop being a victim. But there’s one major thing you forgot to mention here — many of us have side effects of stuttering. The mental health aspect is multiplied for us; stuttering has led to depression, anxiety, etc. Telling someone to just stop and carry on is like a slap in the face for these people. You say that nobody cares about your stutter — I’ve got news for you — some people do. I’ve been turned down for jobs because I stutter. I’ve been told that to my face on at least a couple occasions. It’s not me trying to find something to blame, it’s someone calling it out as it is. I don’t think any of us want to have only friends that stutter. But having others to talk to and share experiences with … yeah that can be helpful with anything that people are going through, including stuttering. For the first 10 years after high school I let my stutter completely control me. It was NOT “simple” to get out of that and find a competitive advantage, as you say. It took me years to find a career I could love and feel comfortable doing, but even then, in some social situations, I struggle. Calling people out like this is not the answer. And it’s not the way to support the community in a positive way. Things like this are a disservice to the community, because you’re only looking at this from one very narrow direction. As I said before, the mental health aspects, the social anxiety aspects, etc. of stuttering is huge. And your post fails to give any sort of understanding of that whatsoever. I really hope you reconsider what you wrote here, because I don’t think this represents what most of us think and feel.