That's why I wanted to post here. I didn't want to talk to him about this more if it would hurt him because I don't understand stuttering well enough. His speech improves a lot when he does his exercises regularly or when he feels more comfortable around people. It just seem like to me, these are things that can both be worked on to continuously have better speech (not necessarily fluent, but better). I worked really hard to get over my social anxiety, so I guess I don't understand why this is different. And his stuttering would go down if he didn't feel as anxious. Maybe it is different, but I just don't know why. Especially when it's something I know really bothers him. I really want to be able to approach him about this, but don't want to say the wrong thing. I don't know if I'm just looking at this all wrong still.