Yes, essentially we are a mute lol. I’ve considered becoming mute when I was young. It would have been much easier. The reading aloud has worked very well. Even alone I still get stuck every now and then, but I work on ways to get past it. It has helped my in real life, since I now know I CAN talk pretty fluent, albeit alone. But that transfers over into daily conservations. Everyone would describe me as antisocial. But I am alive, working, healthy, and feel much better than I was at 23. I also stutter/block much less now. It can get better, we just gotta get over the “hating ourself” part.