There with you, able to get away with substituting words most of the time, I feel like I have a thesaurus in my head sometimes lmao. Even most of my close friends do not realize I stutter until I have a bad one and can’t escape it, which happens and is totally fine. And I agree, I think using this strategy over the years has helped us not think about it as much and has stopped that negative feedback loop of fearing stuttering for most of the day-to-day interactions.