My father is not alive. My mother does not work nor supports me or ever has. We simply live together like roommates. It is not easy to find a stable job as a stutterer. I've moved back home while I continue my studies. I hope to start work then i'll cut her out of my life entirely. I deal with a lot. My sister has mental ilness. We live at the poverty line. We have no support. And the cherry on top of that is that I stutter. My family does not even know who I am because i'm unable to express myself through communication. Do you know how demoralizing that is? Somehow i've finished my bachelors degree and am doing grad school now. Stuttering is not even a topic at my house. I'm self-motivated. I need to overcome this but it needs to be done the right way. I have a bachelors in psychology and am passionate about holistic health i.e meditation, cognitive behavioral therapy. I need to add more tools into the tool kit through speech therapy to develop an action plan next year I'm on a mission to show other stutterers some day that it can be done, but the right way gradually over time. I will document my journey and I hope to meet others on the same path as me. Why did you get into Speech Language Pathology?