For me the worst thing about stuttering was the fear of speaking to people. I was ashamed. Over the years I did all the things to mask it and I became an expert it hiding it. My wife just asked me why I don’t stutter anymore. I’m pretty old and I’ve been hiding my stutter for so long it’s become easy. I have a moderate stutter that was very obvious when I was young, but I didn’t get blocks. I just have elongations at the beginning of words that are sometimes impossible to push through. There’s other things too but that’s the gist. Anyway I hadn’t thought about it in so long. I immediately knew that there had to be a sub for this and here I am. We have really come a long way from when I was a kid! I’m almost perfectly fluent. Almost. But I know that I have always been, and will always be a person who stutters. But it’s no longer a monster that tries to burst out of my mouth when I try to talk. It has shaped my whole life and only now am I able to be proud of it.