Not a Cautionary Tale

IF THERE WERE a magic pill, would you take it? Every disabled person I know has been asked this question, or else posed it to themselves. Once, I would have dismissed the hypothetical as a cruel thought experiment. Stuttering, which is genetic and has no cure, had made my life harder, much harder, but I was sure that it had made me a better person: more patient, more empathetic. Without it, who would I be?