> Like finding someone to date and marry isn't that hard, just like finding a job or career It's not easy for everyone to find a job. Jobs have formal applications where what matters is essentially what is on your resume (i.e. do you have the qualifications/education/experience or do you not). If you don't meet those (because of a disability for example), you won't find a job and will end up collecting a disability check instead. With dating/marriage the only qualifications are physical attraction, certain desirable physical/social characteristics and luck. Just like with a job, if you don't have then then you won't get it. I know someone whose stutter is 100% worse than mine (and mine has impacted nearly every aspect of my life) to the extent that even I looked at him weird when he was stuttering. However, he is now married and has a kid. He is white, tall, conventionally attractive, approachable, reasonably successful and got lucky that met someone who liked him at a young ago. So I'm not saying a stutter is a dealbreaker, but a stutter in combination with being short, not conventionally attractive, shy, inexperienced with women and not extraordinarily successful most likely is and there is no point in pretending that it is not. My point is people should live their best life without chasing something that they simply don't qualify for. It's like being in a wheelchair and hoping to become an astronaut someday. You just don't qualify. It's not going to happen. It is fine. Move on and find other things in life that give you purpose and meaning. It is such a sadness that people thing the only joy in life is validation & sex when there is a whole world out there.