I had a severe stutter from 4 yrs old until my 11th grade year in high school. Speech therapy, relaxing, taking a deep breath, breathing from my diaphragm, and slow “turtle talk” helped, but didn’t fix it. One day I quit giving a fuck. I started acting like someone else. Quick witted, goofy, loud, and a bit obnoxious. I drew attention to myself in comical but obnoxious ways. I loved when I’d drop a one liner in class and everyone would erupt in laughter. Everyone including the teachers were mystified and amused. What happened to your stutter? It was still there. I found out why actors that stutter, didn’t stutter while acting. Because they got to be someone else. That’s when I discovered that I could also sing. Not that good. Guess what happened when I sang? I didn’t stutter. So I sang all the time, laughed, and cracked jokes. I use to hate talking on the phone because of my stutter. This was before texting. So keeping a girlfriend around was challenging. I now have a sales job that requires cold calling. Sometimes I stutter, most of the time I don’t. I’m still goofy, less obnoxious, and sing all the time, which is probably obnoxious to my wife and kids. I also do a bunch of impersonations. I try to mimic Tony Soprano, Nicolas Cage, radio advertisments, movie trailer narrators, Ru Paul, and Buffalo Bill, just to name a few. I’m telling you to quit caring about your stutter, sing all the time, and act like your someone else. Someone who you aspire to be. I wanted to be cool, charming, funny, and suave. I doubt I hit all of those but atleast I tried. I still stutter and get hung up on words here and there but I could care less. Please, for your mental sake, quit caring.