I know that my experience seems to be an outlier, but also consider that you may find yourself outgrowing your stutter like I did. I had a moderate-severe stutter all through grade school and early high school, and it really seemed to just taper off into my early 20's. I still get the very very very seldom and fleeting odd tick or block, but really only when I'm extremely tired or nervous to the point of overanalyzing what I'm saying. To put things into perspective, in school I could barely get through a sentence or paragraph without blocking a few times. Fast forward to my late 30's, and I've been in sales/marketing and general business management roles since my mid-20's and nobody I work with knows I used to stutter unless I tell them. I make cold calls and presentations all day long, am on the phone, love being an ass and telling jokes in my free time, and for all intents and purposes I've been free and clear of my stutter since entering into adulthood. Again, very seldomly I'll be reading something out loud to my wife or a colleague, and I'll actually see myself getting stuck on a hard consonant or other weird block a few seconds before it happens. Sometimes I'll struggle through it for a second but most of the time it'll actually be gone by the time I get to the offending word. I know this probably isn't much help as I couldn't really tell you what I did or experienced to specifically overcome my stutter, but maybe some hope that sometimes it CAN go away. Grade school was a nightmare (although I wasn't unpopular and have always had a good sense of humour) when it came to reading out loud and giving speeches. I did spend an hour or two a week in third or fourth grade with a speech pathologist, but it was very brief and it would still be many years before my stutter showed any signs of remission so I'm reluctant to credit it with much. I will say that conscious breathing and rhythmic tapping on my leg, table, or other nearby surface in cadence with my speech as I'm approaching a word I can feel a stutter forming on seems to help me through it quite often. Also, deep and slow breathing and generally being in a relaxed state have always seemed to get me through my blocks and ticks with minimal stuttering in my younger days before it seems to have gone away almost entirely. Stuttering sucks and I don't miss it! Maybe forcing myself into roles and environments that required me to be vocal somehow brute-forced it out of me, but even if it did I know this probably won't work for everybody. Worth a shot though! Feel free to ask me any questions and I'll do my best to answer them. At 17 you're still physiologically changing and developing to a fair degree and I would assume you're in a good place to try and work yourself out of it, but I'm neither a pathologist nor a doctor and my experience is anecdotal at best.