Let me be the first to tell you you should not seek validation through people, regardless of if you have a speech impediment or not. Now, for the friends issue, you just have to put yourself out there, do what you love doing and talk about what you like, you could join the r/sutter discord and try to connect with people. Funny enough, I have no friends but that's because they stabbed me in the back, they expected me to be desperate and forgive them since I stutter but NAH, not doing that. Reach out to people, if you can't, reach out to family, if you can't, reach out to us in the forum. Remember that it's better to have genuine people that love you than people that tolerate you.