I view it as a blessing, not a curse. At work, sometimes we go out to eat. The waitress starts taking orders, I only have so stutter a few words, and she immediately says "I remember you, you want the... and proceeds to recite my order word for word." Meanwhile my colleagues look at me like "How the hell did that just happen" I have never viewed that as a curse. I tell people around me all the time, 50 years from now, people will still remember me, they will remember working with me, talking to me, and almost everybody else will be in the back of their minds somewhere gathering dust. They will encounter another stutterer some time further down the road, and instantly remember talking to me, and they will talk to that person with understanding, and kindness. I can live with that.