With respect...no. I have had this response before...and...no. I will not face a fear that I have had since I have had a working memory. I am well beyond young adulthood, and I have faced this fear through virtually every means that exists, and nothing works. Besides, and again, this is with respect...such a thing is completely up to me...and I won’t embrace it, I won’t openly stutter, as some have suggested...instead, I will use the tools that have been developed, that is, the text message, in order to navigate around what has been a lifelong impediment to my confidence and sense of well being. It is not up to my friends to decide for me when and how I work on this fear, should I ever have the desire...and it’s pretentious of anyone to try to force me to do that before I decide for myself.