I stopped allowing it to bother me. It's like when you stop responding to the swarm of flies. They are still there but you just don't notice them. Likewise the stutter is still there but I do not let it disturb me, Stuttering used to occupy my every thought, form my every word, but now I view it as what built my expression, my identity, my own personal self concept. Without a stutter I would be a completely different person. I am viewed by most people as being a good, caring person who puts others in front of himself, and the stutter is what forced me to listen, to truly understand others and their intentions. I now have confidence in myself, actually like myself. And since I learned to love myself, I was able to let my self love another individual. My girlfriend has her own disability to deal with, She has Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, and as such is missing some muscles, and is unable to run and walks very slowly. People take talking for granted, people take walking for granted. The two of us each have a disability that has formed us and no longer let it burden us. For a while I kept my stutter a secret, but recently spoke at a conference at Brandeis University. She used to keep her disability a secret, but recently spoke in front of all 50 of her sorority sisters. I found love, and I found good love. Accepting the stutter changed my life, and i'm not sure how much klonopin had to do with it directly but I can tell you that the man i was on klonopin and am now was a lot different than the man I was before it. Life is short and we must used our time wisely. We were given a stutter, which no body will ever understand unless they are part of the community. Stuttering may be our biggest burden, but I think it is also our biggest savior.