I'm only a little more than 6 months into being stutter free. It didn't happen to me until I was 36. I don't identify myself as a stutterer, but I don't have the confidence of someone who never stuttered. I sometimes start to employ a strategy on words that were once difficult to me and realize that I didn't need it. When I stuttered, I could feel when I would have a difficult time speaking. Sometimes I still believe that, and I'm amazed when I don't need to think about my speech. My fluent physical abilities are still not in sync with my beliefs.