I’m a young adult, stuttered all my life. It was worst when I was a little kid, but a few years of speech therapy helped out a lot. Now I can go periods of time that are essentially stutter-free, otherwise I still stutter but it’s not too bad. Though if I am quite scared, angry, or excited then I start blocking a lot and can hardly speak at all. Intense emotion is such a trigger for me, I’ve mastered the art of becoming emotionally numb at times. I manage the stutter most of the time with filler words, replacing words, sometimes I even use an accent. I nervous laugh a lot, I use a sing-songy voice sometimes, I have ‘safe’ phrases that I end up overusing. Because of all those things I use to mask the stutter I tend to come off as a bit annoying or stupid. I don’t get taken seriously much (I’m certain there are other factors to that). As for positives, I think patience comes easier to a stutterer than most people. While it can be frustrating, my speech issues can also be pretty funny to me sometimes. An anti-trigger (is that a thing?) for me is my current job. I work with high school students with special needs, I find it very easy to communicate when I’m at work. Sometimes I joke to myself that at work im a separate person from myself anywhere else