So my situation is I never stuttered had speech issues, but that all changed 2/8/21. I suffered a Traumatic Brain injury and within about 10 mins I lost my ability to speak among a lot of other physical/mental hardships.After time and speech therapy I still have a stutter. It is so hard to explain to friends/family how others perceive you now. I didn’t know how truly ignorant and unaware people could be.I have worked customer based jobs for 17 years and I can tell you after my injury the way I was viewed was completely different.I have had people repeat my stutter back to me, jokes made, not taken seriously,perceived as unintelligent and the list goes on and on.It truly is awful. I decided for me being confident in what I say has kinda helped me because if I’m gonna mess up a word/sentence I’m doing it loud and proud(Of course some days it is easier said then done.)Then if your brazen enough to make a comment /joke/remark I will call you out and correct. Yeah is my speech gonna get worse once I tear you a new one? You bet your ass it will,but I’ll be damned if let anyone put me down over something I cannot control anymore.