Are you me?!!! No seriously, I *just* got off a 3 hour phone convo with my bestie and went "huh... that was weird." I've always hated talking on the phone because I stutter worse when I use them, but this time it was so striking I ran to google and ended up here. I also had an extreme stutter when I was a child and it (mostly) went away by the time I hit 12/13. I still have dysfluencies but people say they don't notice while I'm hyperaware of them. Now I'm trying to figure out if it's actually coming back/getting worse or if I'm unused to hearing myself anymore. Pre-Covid I was a bartender (not a very good one because I intensely dislike talking to strangers, hmmm I wonder why...) and now the most sustained speaking I do is a weekly 1.5 hour group recovery meeting, short convos with my parents, and annoying my cat. Otherwise almost all my communication is text based. And just because your bf doesn't notice it doesn't mean it isn't happening. Like I said, people tell me the same thing all the time but they aren't the ones forming words, struggling to finding words, breathing, pacing, stomping/flapping/swimming, etc.