I'm sorry for your toxic co-workers. You sound like someone that can rise above the pettiness. Forget all of them. They are all busy thinking about themselves at night and worried about their own interactions. Don't give it a second thought. People always tease. Usually in adult settings it's because they think the person they tease is strong and is laughing with them. The worst of it is in our own heads either way. Baseline is actually a word I was using that I picked up from my dads medical situation. But I liked it and it described well enough what I feel when I am in a so called stutter state and have a hard time returning to baseline or my spontaneous self. I noticed the emotions...or maybe it is our bodily response to it, subsides even slower than me becoming fluent. So I feel the flair up, I can still be fluent going forward but the knot in the stomach or w/e muscles it tenses up take a moment to subside. Or maybe it is our fight or flight response that is subsiding, I don't know. But it does feel like emotionally it's certainly not at the flip of a finger. But no one really knows what people go through inside, stutterers or non stutterers.