I'm 30 and have had a pretty mild stutter since around 10, my mum and brother have one too. School was hard, but I got through it without too many big obvious stutters. Mainly from word substitution and choosing soft words to start sentences, like "hey" or "uum" or "so". My mum especially had a really bad one until her 20s, where it really fell away and I have never heard her stutter. The same is happening to me. It has become so automatic to change words, pretend I can't remember words, or start with soft words that I rarely have an obvious and embarrassing stutter. The best thing for me is starting with soft words and flowing through a sentence, like you would with a word (I always stutter at the start of the word, not the start of a syllable). There are still hard times, like saying my name (Jack, which is not fun to say), my company, address, etc. But even this week I've struggled with my name and have just converted to "how ya going I'm Jack" and it's been fine. I can be very confident sometimes, and I've noticed that if I just pretend like I'm confident then I become confident once a conversation starts TL;DR find any strengths you can and work on them, and build from there. Be confident in who you are and remind yourself you are more than your stutter, other people will realise. I'm going to come back to this thread in a few weeks and ask how you're going :)