There’s the catch though: if you accept stuttering, you may stutter, but it won’t come with the doubt and fear. The doubt and fear comes from frustration and self loathing due to lack of control. When you accept that you will stutter, the mechanism to stutter will still be there, but you can use your therapeutic tools to work on your speech publicly, giving you back the control. This is how I took the power away from my stutter. I still stutter, but I have no shame to work through it when I speak, so I’m able to recalibrate and find my way through what I’m trying to say, and do so with conviction and confidence. My inspiration was this cute hostess I worked with back in the day when I bussed tables in college. We both had a stutter. I was much quieter, avoided social interactions for fear of stuttering. She was the opposite. She sought out interaction, and when she’d stutter, she stood proud, and dealt with it out in the open like a physical ailment, no shame, and kept her bright, bubbly personality, and I was shocked at the difference. I realized my main problem with my stuttering wasn’t the stutter itself, but how I viewed it, and bc I was ashamed of it. Acceptance allowed me to use my tools publicly, and it took away the power.