I appreciate your personal take. My path was similar in that I accepted and stopped avoiding my stutter, which then increased my fluency. That worked for me, it worked for you, it doesn’t mean it’s universal truth. ASL could 100% be someone’s solution under the right circumstances — like living close to or deciding to go to Gallaudet University in DC, for example. You can’t dogmatically say that it would be a solution for no one. Your experience does not equal all experience. If someone’s mental state is so depleted that they have given up all hope of finding love, acceptance, etc. “Go back to speech therapy” isn’t what they are looking for nor what they will do. Most of us all have been there and done that. This is perhaps an extreme alternative, I get that, but a viable one none the less. One that in this very thread we have read worked — saying it won’t is awfully close-minded.