hey, we've all been there, and we understand your struggles acutely. if you need a community that can relate and offer you support, we have a fairly good-sized discord that is very active full of people just like you, same age group as well. I will say that we have a list of rules that make it a pleasant and supportive place to be so while we are always around to listen to your bad day and offer commiseration, we are not a mental health server nor are any of us trained professionals, so talking about really serious mental health problems that can be triggering for other people is against the rules. so is talking about religion. BUT you are ALWAYS welcome to join us, especially since stuttering is such a rare thing, a lot of people who join for the first time are amazed that we have such a big community of stutterers from all over the world, people understand them for the first time in their life. it is a really fun place to be! so with that in mind, we have standing invitations for everyone on this subreddit. the link to join is in the sidebar of our discord, but you can also [click this link](https://discord.gg/CDtgVh52) to join us!