to OP: not being happy is not because of your stutter, its because you are 17. if you didnt stutter you would think you were too tall, too short, too smart, too dumb, or anything else. we are socially, neurologically, and physiologically programmed to be unhappy at that age. trudge through it and in 2-3 years you will have either gotten over it (the unhappiness, not the stutter; your stuck with that) or beat yourself up enough to become a self-loathing pitiful husk of a man. >I'm 17 years old, male, i have good friends, i go to parties with some of them, i have good marks in school, i'm pretty handsome if that's the case then what is the problem? that sounds as close to living the dream as many people get. >i feel stuttering is the only thing that doesn't let me be happy, that doesn't let me be who i am boo-freakin-hoo. you are not crippled with some inoperable brain tumor that will kill you by the time your 20, you are not bound to a wheel chair, you take longer than most people getting words out sometimes. its not the end of the world. to the rest of posters here (with a few exceptions): quit bitching. it seems like the last few days on this sub everyone has been one blocked word away from slitting their wrists. our stutters are not the enemy. our stutters are not holding us back. our fear of our stutter is holding us back. yes, it sucks to get caught in the loop of "i cant get that sound out so now i am panicking so now its harder to get that sound out" but if that is the only thing that you define yourself by then of course you will not be happy. its like if a short dude judged his entire quality of life by being able to reach the top shelf. you are a complete person and are better than everyone else. everyone likes stupid movies but you, no one else's music collection is as good as yours, and you hang out at all the cool websites. god only gave you a stutter because otherwise you would be too bad-ass to exist and space would implode on itself. accept yourself for who you are (the complete package, not just the parts you dont like) and go kick ass and take names.