Stuttering for 48 of the last 51 years… It has been very limiting and confidence sapping at many times in my life. That said, I never had the option to not do “hard” things (poverty does that to you) - I went in the infantry (combat in Somalia), went into higher education (PhD in Education). Along the way learned 4 languages. Despite my accomplishments and skills, I still experience prejudice regularly - even in “progressive” bastions of DEI. It sucks. I’ve been largely limited from a traditional career. So now I build stuff all kinds of cool tech stuff, train AI on Native American morality and ethics, and grow way too many plants and mushrooms.