Refactoring Fear

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A developer recounts a 20+ year stutter starting at age six, speech therapy that worsens fluency, and discovery of programming at 13 that becomes a communication outlet. A 2014 blog post and open source work on Fastlane lead to an engineered strategy: model speech as an applySpeechImpediment function with tunable block odds and environment flags (casual, loud, confident). Honest disclosure plus duty-specific prep reduce blocks; outcome: repeated conference talks (Tri Swift Tokyo, SwiftLeeds) show the refactor works.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:35Early life and discovery
3. 2:13Struggle and introspection
4. 12:46Refactoring the fear
5. 21:24Conclusion

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