Hey man, it's a tough situation to be in. I'd never deny that. We've all gone through spans like this in our lives, and the major reason we do this is because we believe we can somehow cure our stutter. It's a disorder that has no known cure unfortunately. It's a sad truth I had to face. I feel you're in a place in which you have 2 options. You can decide to let how you may sound, or how long it may take to same something get in the way of what you want to do in life. Or, you can come to terms with how you speak. A family member of mine was in a car crash a few years back, and he told me something that's kind of stuck with me. He said that for a while after this event, he very much thought his life was over. He had trouble getting places, and doing things he would have done before. For a long time he became depressed, but it was only when he was watching some film (can't remember the name off hand) he realized what he was doing. He was so concentrated on how much he may stand out, or how much trouble it may be for him to get around, that he wasn't thinking of ways to better his life. To better his life, he needed to change his mindset a lot (as have I with my stutter), He put a lot of effort into making his situation work for him. Yeah, he was different, but that didn't mean he was less educated or capable than anyone else. And the truth is, he realized much less people actually had a bad reaction to him at all. He just assumed everyone would. His other realization was that if people around him weren't supportive for how he is, then there's no point in having people like that in his life. Yeah, he's in a wheelchair, big deal! This relates to stuttering a lot. It's very very difficult to change your mindset, but it can be done. We may have some trouble speaking, and we need to be honest to people about this. It's a technique called confident stuttering. Many people have a negative reaction to how we speak because they are confused. They're confused mainly when people use tricks to try and get their stutter out. But if you're stuttering openly, and they know you are, they will not have a negative reaction to you. From my experience people are usually thrilled that you're overcoming something as grand as a stutter. Just working on your stutter alone, and trying to become 'fluent' just wont work. The reality is you will have situations like this in the future. And the very harsh truth is, that you can either let it control your life and make you feel like shit, or you can accept that it's there and keep doing what you love doing. This is easier said than done, but from experience, it can be done, and I'm sure many would agree with me on here. Life is incredibly too short to let something as simple a stutter control it. Coming from a person who had a very severe stutter, this was the best realization I've ever had. My life has improved immensely.