Don't let it define you. You are not your stutter. You will find friends who like you for you. You'll find lovers who love you for you. We're lucky, we're in a time where a lot of conversation is done via text. So you can establish yourself in people's heads by your thoughts as they're written down. Not as they're spoken. There's no easy fix for stuttering. Believe me, I wish there was. But you can control it, if you can control your anxiety about speaking. I used to be petrified to do class presentations. Now I can speak in front of 300 people with only a little anxiety. I still stutter, but it's not 80% horrible blocks like it used to be in middle school and high school. It's the anxiety that does you in. I think most people who stutter would do better with therapy addressing their anxiety than they do with direct speech therapy. Sure, a little speech therapy can be helpful to find tricks like easy onsets and light touches etc, but those are only really helpful if you already have your anxiety under control. I think the best thing to do is to put yourself in those tough situations when you *don't* have anything important on the line. Call in take out when no one else is around. Make a presentation to a small number of people when you don't have a grade or a job on the line. The more you do it the less scary it is, and the less scary it is, the less you'll stutter, which will make it even less scary next time. I know it fucking sucks. It's not fair. But wallowing in how much it sucks isn't going to help. Become confident of your abilities outside of speaking. The more confident you feel, the more confident you'll act, which will help people see past the stutter and understand that you're someone worth listening to.