I feel like I took on different personas with different groups of people. With my family, I used to stutter like crazy but that was because they of course knew that I stuttered and that made me not care, so whenever I'd talk to family, I'd just speed through everything and stammer all the way through. It didn't matter to me or them. When I talked to girls, I would switch gears and adopt an unflappable cool guy persona with lots of mannerisms that I stole from actors from movies that I thought were cool. I would stutter very rarely with women because I would devote so much of my energy into not being myself. I would even speak in a different voice/pitch. And with friends, it was on and off, since they were my friends for years so that was a comfort zone. It's crazy what your brain will resort to, to do anything and everything to avoid suffering through another embarrassing moment. Stuttering for me is in my head too. When I would be too anxious or too excited - BAM - fluency would go out the window. Not nearly as bad now that I am older.