My stutter is something that makes me unique. It's something I love working on improving, but hate when I let it limit something I want to say or do. I believe my stutter is a very small part of my world, but being human, 20+ years of fearing judgement and ridicule from others has blown it out of proportion in my head. This only led to increased anticipation and avoidance of my stutter and I let it steal all joy of vocal communication from me. The goal I am working for in 'overcoming' it is to get to a point of saying exactly what I want to say, exactly when I want to. Stuttering or not will be irrelevant at that point. To get to this point, I am actively stuttering more at home, in the workplace and with friends. If it's a real stutter, that is fantastic and I feel good that I said what I wanted to. If it's a voluntary stutter, I feel good about having made the next real stutter that much smaller and easier. I still avoid and get tremendous anxiety in certain situations, but if it's less than it was last week, then it's progress.