[_skhan_]

So... if I have a handicap, I should look at it as an opportunity or challenge? I should just rise-up to the challenge? Yeah, well, if I don't have any options, then I'll make do.

I really only see lack of empathy in your response. Stuttering is a handicap, plain and simple. Yes, some of us can live with it. It is debilitating and humiliating and if you do not suffer from it, I can't imagine how you can begin prescribing advice. You can have the universe, I just want to order some coffee (thank god for self-serve POS).

[hypertele-Xii]

Calling anything "plain and simple" is an admission of knowing nothing about the subject. Nothing in the universe is plain and simple. Every single mutation, trait and feature of every single human being who has ever been born can be thought of as a handicap. Classically, even being perfect is considered one.

This is only a reflection of one's inability to play the damn game, instead adopting a victim mentality for pity points.

When I went abroad and didn't speak a single word of the local language, I still managed to order coffee just fine by pointing my finger at what I wanted, and smiling. There is nothing debilitating nor humiliating about any of it. Grow up and develop a personality.

[msla]

> This is only a reflection of one's inability to play the damn game, instead adopting a victim mentality for pity points.

My life isn't a game.

Thanks for trying, but you're obviously unsuited to the task of having this discussion.

[hypertele-Xii]

Maybe that's why you're suffering instead of enjoying it.