Stuttering is an identity that we all share, and how you identify with it varies. When I was 15, I exhibited secondary behavior like tapping myself to get through a block, now I'm 25 and I sort of just wing it? I've been taught techniques but in practice they fail, but that is a different convo: Why do they fail? Because they don't work or I am doing something wrong? So usually by winging it, sometimes I'll repeat the first part of what I said as a starter, or I'll just stutter. It's weird talking about how I communicate sometimes because it should feel so natural and passive, but the stuttering is there and everyone knows it, especially me. So in that aspect, identifying that I have a stutter and being open about it and aware, I think is the right first step - awareness.