Welcome to the subreddit, make sure you check out [the link archive here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/wiki/index) for lots of useful information. Also, we have a discord chat, this is a service in which we have a public text and/or voice chat setup so you can challenge yourself and get to know people! [More information here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/49eoxn/rstutter_discord_server_text_voice_chat/) --- A huge part of stuttering is psychological. As is the anxiety and fear around stuttering. The truth is, you cannot change how you speak, but you *can* change how you react to it. Yeah, I understand, right now the mindset is: stuttering is embarrassing, shameful, maybe makes you look stupid, and on and on. I've learned to change that mindset, by using Mindfulness and other tried and tested methods of changing mindsets. My new mindset is: I will go into a situation, and say what I want to say, regardless of how long it takes or how it sounds. You may think currently, well people's reactions matter. This is true, and what I've found is that as soon as I developed a "confident stuttering mindset" people don't react to me, and I don't feel people reacting to me as much. Which is the main part. A lot of the time we only expect people to be thinking a certain way about our stutter or how we speak, but the reality is a lot of people just don't understand what's going on with you. As soon as you tell people you stutter, and are assertive about it, people understand, and you can get on with your life. Get a negative reaction? Remove them from your life. There's no point in surrounding yourself with people who don't treat you for who you are, because at the end of the day, you stutter, and you know what? Your stutter is only a very small part of your true self. A good 98% of the time, people react perfectly fine to it. Once they understand you stutter, and you make them aware that there's more important things about you than just how you speak. Concentrate on those things, go to the gym, study, learn, get new hobbies, all of these things are much more important to someone you are communicating with than how you speak. So they should be more important to you. Never put your stutter before what you want in life, because life is too fucking short for that. Hope this helped you a bit. It's a tough reality to face but it's really the only way. And honestly, it's the best way. Looking for a cure that will never come? Again, life's too short. Good luck :)