Thank God it helped you.!! I personally have never hated stuttering, Here is why.(and I tell this not to impress you,but to impress upon you.) 1.it has kept me humble,otherwise I would have been way over my head by now,because now I realize we all are imperfect and that is our perfection. 2.it has made me a person who respects people of so called low socio economic category and people not with so called great jobs. 3.it has made me an understanding person,I take into account others feelings,and so have been told many times about how good a guy I'm. 4.it has made me a person who treats himself the way he wants others to treat him,so I am most of the times content and so I generally overflow with goodness,willingly giving and graciously receiving. 5.It has made me a person who can work inspite of repeated failures. 6.It used to MAKE ME HATE/BE ANGRY on myself quite a few years ago when I was told it as a drawback of my personality,it used to stop me from participating in school in debates and speechs, from approaching girls and even standing up for myself. When I entered college I decided to open up,come what may I will do what I can,it surely gave me more people who used to tease me but first time in my life I had true friends,who were caring,understanding.they didn't emotionally understand me but intellectually they did. For first time I thought of getting into relationships(right now I'm too focused on my career though, and as I said before I'm content with myself so I'm not dying fr a girl) i may/may not get the hottest blonde but I will get the girl with whom I can spend my life happily for sure,a girl who is caring,understanding and with whom I can have a perfect relationship,with imperfections of both of us. This is just a superficial thought my friend. If I think hard and make some points u will probably start to fall in love with me. : D So do not hate yourself. As I said before WE ALL ARE IMPERFECT BUT THATS OUR PERFECTION. Take care. :)