I recommend meeting people online, or texting/email first. I find the words that I can’t find an alternative for like the name of my school, siblings and their names, what I’m interested in, just general getting to know you stuff are the words I can’t get out. I would meet them in person after telling them all the stuff I know I have trouble with and then we could just chat about random things so I could substitute words if I felt a block. I met my husband this way, not that he would have cared as he’s never mentioned my stutter. Good luck, there are good people out there who are willing to wait for us to finish What we need to say.