Well, I guess I should respond as well. My name is Ryan and I am 21 years old. Although it's such a simple name, it is a pain for me to say. I can never get past the "y" with ease. I have stuttered since I was 9 and do not personally know anyone else who stutters. When I started stuttering my parents feared I had brain cancer and had me take extensive tests (still have the MRIs somewhere). Thankfully, no cancer. From late elementary school through high school I went to my schools speech therapist but it always seems as though no progress is made. (Hell in elementary school I was made to speak in monotone for almost the entire time at school.) I am currently a general employee at Hampton inn and am going to college for philosophy and later law. I am about to start my junior year of college and my parents already have me starting to study for the LSAT. :P thankfully I have a loving girlfriend of 5 years to deal with everything and am soon going to be moving in with her in our first apartment within the next few days! :)