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Hey guys, nice to meet you all I'm a male, 23 years old, and have been stuttering since the age of 12 (which was deemed unusual by my speech therapist). The severity of my stutter fluctuates, I have bad months and 'good' months in which I feel my stutter has decreased. There was this very odd period of like 6/7 months when I was 16 where I stuttered so little that I genuinely forgot I stuttered. I was close to fluency. Unfortunately since then it has come back to bite me in the ass and now I'm trying to figure out new ways to battle it. I was always afraid to talk on the phone to strangers like calling for a doctor appointment or asking questions to customer service and stuff like that. Only since 3/4 months have I managed to overcome the fear of talking on the phone. I still stutter on the phone but I don't hesitate to call anymore, I just do it. Now my next step is trying to overcome my fear of talking to strangers in real life. I'm still a college student starting a master's programme and I think I've done a decent job of not letting stuttering harm my career as I've done very well in education and have a decent amount of work experience for my age. All I feel that's lacking in my life is a cute girlfriend. Talking with females has been my biggest problem and it just hurts knowing that I would do so much better with girls if I could speak fluently. That's all, thought I'd share my story, maybe it helps somebody out there, you never know...