As a girl who stutters, yes I did hate myself when I was much younger than I am now (I'm 19 now); and yes I was somewhat depressed about it. Being told that 1 in 5 girls stutter and it usually goes away by the time you go into puberty and being in this position is very frustrating. Not even sad, frustrated. I can only say from my experience, but telling a stutterer 'you really should speak up more' or 'you shouldn't be sad about your stutter' does not help at all. Everyone dislikes themselves for something, ours just so happens to be a stutter; something that affects our everyday life, our choice in words and the relationships we have. Even if I do have a stutter, I believe my life is fulfilled and although I feel somewhat blocked out sometimes from my disorder and need to take a few hours alone to think about it, I think everyone has times like that with other things. Ours may take a bit longer, but we don't spend all our time wrapped in our sheets wanting the world to go away; as a child, yes maybe, but that's because we have no responsibilities as children. As our stutter becomes older, we grow to adjust. And adjusting is all we should need to do until we get where WE want to be.