I appreciate the thoughtful and detailed response. I do respect your position on this, but I also disagree. You see, it’s because it can indeed go away. Not on its own, of course. It takes a lot of work and just as much determination and perseverance, but many have defeated stuttering and are now ex-stutterers. I’m on my way there as evidenced by the fact that I can now navigate many social situations with ease (includes the dreaded phone call) and without stuttering at all (or no more than a fluent speaker would) when I used to be someone who couldn’t say a word in most situations. Let me use an imperfect but useful analogy here. Imagine we were talking about a leg injury. This leg injury has been going on for years because we keep using our leg and never let it heal. As it turns out, there are crutches, or means of allowing us to walk without using our leg. This allows it to heal. Such is the reality of the stuttering habit. We need to avoid stuttering incidents (walking on the injured leg) until the habit dies through misuse Because that’s what it is, a habit, as evidenced by, among other things, the fact that some people don’t begin stuttering until their late teens. It can be defeated. We just need to stop worsening it. Or we can accept it and continue limping on. It’s a free world after all. I choose the former though. It’s the only way that I can find peace and happiness.