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There is no alternative to self-acceptance. The non-acceptance movement, if we can even call it a movement, is a weird sum of multiple incoherent agendas from self-haters who need therapy, stutterer haters who should be excluded and fake solution sellers who should be arrested. Non-acceptance would just mean going back to darkness where your speaking rights are taken away by haters, where your autonomy is intruded by fake solution sellers, where your life is constantly interrupted by "I know what's best for your stutter" folks. Even the simple task of applying for a job, which is already hard because of stutter, is made even harder because of all those passive aggressive interrupters who say "no, you shouldn't apply. put that on hold and just try my solution first and then apply. what? oh you don't like my advices? you think you're better than me? you're the one without a job! Get a job!" Look at that pattern. They demand you put your life on hold for some interaction they want with you, which could be anything from you absorbing their bad solution without questions to you going on a "date" with them so they can "teach" you how to speak. And when you decline because you're a sane individual with boundaries, they get mad at you and shame you. They're like "I am a nice person. I am nicely asking you put your life on hold for my amusement out of your own will and try this thing with me and if you say no, I will insult you" The worst thing about non-acceptance movement is it empowers these interrupters, some of whom have the power to sabotage your life.