I know your pain bro. I am 25 years old and have wanted to share my experience with the world of people who stutter for a while now. I want to make a YouTube video soon too. Here is my story: I was born with a terrible stutter and suffered all the pain that we feel. Growing up, it would take me an entire minute to try to get about 5 words out, sometimes a block on every word where I would keep repeating a sound but couldn’t make a word out of it. I avoided any kind of social interaction and to be faced to have to speak would drive my anxiety crazy just thinking about saying a word, having to interact with people. It made me feel so alone and abandoned in this world. I never really made close friends as people would shy away from me, never even imagined having a girlfriend. My parents took me to speech therapy and school tried helping me with therapy classes but nothing worked or helped me. My family would make deep breath expressions looking at me every time I was about to talk or told me. Therapist told me to slow down and think about the word I wanted to say among any other practices. It’s all bullshit. I could no longer handle the anxiety of social interactions and was home schooled at 11. I started to have suicidal thoughts and would cry myself to sleep every night for years and wake up wondering why am I alive if my life is such a struggle that I can not enjoy even the most basic human interaction of talking. I started to hate people who talked and enjoyed pleasant conversations because I felt I could never enjoy that or have a girlfriend or friends. I hated myself to the core. By 20, I leaned to do many things that avoided me having to stutter. Mainly I avoided any kind of social interaction. When forced to order Food, I would look over menu and chose a plate that I knew would be easy for me to say instead of one I wanted and knew I would stutter if I tried to order it. My brother was my only friend who was always there for me, he made fun of my stutter but not in a cruel way. I think my parents saw me as some invalid handicap which I basically was. Stuttering will make you feel worthless as a human being. I was lucky to learn how to fix cars from my dad as he owned an auto shop and I worked there for many years. At 19, I went out and opened my open auto repair shop and was running my own business. I forced myself to go out and talk to people, to talk on the phone. It was challenging to talk with people as it is, try presenting a professional manner while doing it. Life was terrible and just the anxiety to speak is so huge on people who stutter, it controls everything we do and every aspect of how we do and plan things. Where did I find help and cure myself? This is no bullshit straight up how I literally went from stuttering 100% down to an average of 1-5%, literally to the point where I feel a completely different human being and absolutely love talking to people everyday. My brother was pot smoker and one day I tried smoking some weed. I was probably 21 at the time and since then, my life has completely changed. After smoking for the first time and being high, I tried to ask my brother for something and still stuttered but I instantly felt inside of me how easier it was for me to say a sentence and no worry about it so much. And after each time I smoked after that, I would literally feel how my speech was so much improved. After smoking daily for a few months I would say, my stuttering had gone away so much that I was talking nonstop and everyone noticed a complete difference in me. I went from someone who struggled to pronounce 5 words in a minute to someone who could now speak and teach a group of people on a subject and might have barely stutter on one word out of 100. The pain from stuttering makes you want to sacrifice anything just to have it go away and that is what I lived with and searched for all my life. I found it in medical marijuana. I do not know if this is a cure that would work for everyone but I transformed me life. I am 25 now and own a business with multiple employees I manage. I can easily call and speak on the phone with anyone or in person with complete confidence. For past 4 years, I have been a daily weed smoker and stay high all day. It gives me the ability to function in a way that every stutterer dreams. For me to trade that pain and live with a drug addiction was worth it. I smoke becuase it helps me stutter but stoners do not really have productive lives. I still own a business, have a great gorgeous girlfriend and enjoy life. I truly enjoy talking with people and sharing my experience with my stuttering. For me, I enjoy weed and learn to live with it becuase the pain of stuttering is too deep for people to handle and try to live with. Another huge step and I think was my biggest life change was when I saw my stuttering as opposed to seeing it something bad that I was born with. I hated myself all my life but after I started smoking and it got better, I saw how it was something in my life that made me stronger. When I didn’t want to ask someone for something, I would go out and do it myself to avoid asking something. I would create situations for myself where I would not have to speak. Rarely, I have a day that my stuttering does come back and no matter how high I am, it will be there like crazy and then gone in a few days. So weed is no an absolute cure, but for the past 4 years it has transformed my stuttering from having 100% control in everything I do to being a 1% thought that I occasionally have and dismiss. I hope this answers gets shared and many people get to read this and see that there is hope. I can’t say I recommend doing drugs and being a drug addict but it worked for me in ways that every stutter dreams of. Thanks for reading, keep fighting and have faith and hope!! I wish I could help everyone who stutters to achieve what I have overcome and achieved. Stay strong my friends !!!