Off-topic, but I just wanted to mention that Ben's been one of my favorite 'teachers' in YouTube. He has some quality content on React and JS stuff. For those wanting to learn React (including some advanced stuff), check out his channel! And no he didn't pay me to post this here. Hey thanks Ben - I know a bit of React and have used it on a few projects thanks (also) to you.
Perhaps putting the word 'Fiction' in the title you suggested (clickbait or not, I think it is utterly relevant to the content) would help? It would be great if this story made it to the front-page!
I can relate. I had a pretty significant stutter growing up. Nothing, and I mean nothing, I hated more than having to pick up the phone. I always made it a point to be as far away from the dreaded phone as I possibly could (just so that I wouldn't be expected to pick it up when I was nearer to it than everyone else) when inside the house. Once my little sister figured out that I had this weird speech impediment, she would run up to the phone every time she heard it ring. My parents wanted me to face my fears - they meant well - but man, what a horrifying experience that would be ! The ceremony I had to put on just to utter the word 'hello' still gives me nightmares. I've long since grown out of my stutter but talking over the phone still isn't something I look forward to.
I'm currently learning some Data Science with Python (and text-wrangling via the CLI) and RegEx is something I got by without, up until now. So thank you so much!