I view my experience with disfluency as one full of hardships, yes, but my attitude over time has developed into one of acceptance. I now have a positive view about myself and my speech. I experienced severe disfluency for most of my childhood and young adulthood and I am now a speech therapist working in the medical setting. I still stutter of course, but I know what I have to do to facilitate fluency. The way that I feel now towards my stuttering is different than my view ten years ago, but I will always be supportive and understanding of people struggling. People that stutter all have different views of how their disfluency affects them emotionally, socially, etc, and that obviously changes over time. I think some people, depending on their experience with disfluency (trying to avoid using the word ‘journey’), do feel treated very unfairly, even discriminatorily, and that’s very relatable. It’s our job to be supportive of each other and stuttering advocacy. Being dismissive and telling people to suck it up is like, the worse thing you can tell a person that stutters. Holding people accountable is important when appropriate, but for some people that are disfluent it could be debilitating.