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It really depends on the severity of your stutter and your attitude/confidence towards it. I used to have a fairly severe stutter and zero self-confidence. People would avoid talking to me, like they would deflect the conversation around/away from me. People would often shift uncomfortably, not knowing where to look or what to do, as I stuttered and gasped my way through a sentence. A couple of people even told me they actively avoid talking to me, as they do not want to put me on the spot. Since then, I've gained a lot of self-confidence, and concurrently my stutter has reduced to only moderate. I can talk and often will stutter, but it doesn't really inhibit my ability to say anything or be understood. And now it's almost like it's functionally been cured. People aren't uncomfortable talking to me. People don't avoid talking to me, friends say they've just stopped noticing it - their brains just skip over the stutters. Girls have told me it's cute. The change in other peoples attitudes to my stutter is night and day. How much of it is the stutter itself reducing? And how much of it is my own attitude towards it - people generally reciprocate the energy you put out. If you radiate the energy that your stutter is nothing to be concerned about, they'll be less concerned about it.