It took my mom years to realize my stuttering is not me pretending to be cute(I was not even a teenager at that time) and another few years to realize I can’t just stop stuttering by her screaming at me to stop it. It took me a long time to become social and start talking to people comfortably, it’s not bothering me anymore. And mom has given up and accepted the fact that my stuttering is not going anywhere. Sometime I wonder if my mom were not head up in the butt thinking her precious kid can’t possibly be a stutter or stop blaming the bad gene from my dad side of the family and take me to a speech therapist early on in life, maybe I won’t be stuttering now as an adult. However, not every parent just knows what to do with a stutter child. It just happens, we have it harder than other people, and we need to learn to live with it. And for the people around us, especially those who are close to us, it takes time for them to accept it, and when they do, it’s as if they don’t hear the stutter at all.