The bit in quotes I meant as my dramatized interpretation of what coddling is actually saying. As in, the people doing the coddling are telling (though not directly, as I wrote) the stutterer that he/she is less than a regular human and therefore needs special allowances. That's the message being sent. I generally agree with you, and I repeat I simply can't know what's right for other people in any regard. I don't think it's so much about something people can believe they can do or not. I think it's important to get burned. You might do a presentation and completely embarrass yourself and stutter to hell and back. But you're building up that scar tissue. It might not feel very good at the time or even in the near future. Now, what if doing that presentation puts someone in something of a PTSD shock and they never recover emotionally and become a wreck for life? I get where you're coming from and I don't think it's necessarily wrong. But my general view is you can either hide from the world or not, and there's no amount of prepping in your room you can do to make you ready to take that leap. You just have to jump.