21 years old Italian stutterer here, been one since 6-7 years old. It's true, you probably can't get rid of stuttering completely, but you can improve, build up confidence and silence your thoughts and bad past experiences and deja-vus, to the point that it won't bother you that much. You might want to to it by doing stuff that you wouldn't normally do / or that you find scary, it kind of worked for me. You might also want to focus on the times you manage to speak without stuttering, instead of the times you don't, stop a second and realize you did well. My stutter has never been too severe, now it's mild, but it was more than enough to bother me, especially in school years. I've become a master at hiding blocks with prolongations, rapid change of words, and "umms", and not many know i stutter. I very rarely stutter properly by repetition. While this might seem nice, this whole "me wanting to hide my stutter" thing is pretty stressful and keeps me from accepting it completely. Accepting it is the first step for improving and the most difficult, and i'm trying to be more open about it little by little. I know all about circumlocution...oral exams in school were a nightmare. I've always done the least i could at school, because i knew i couldn't express exactly my thoughts in words. I often had to make pauses and it seemed like i didn't study at all, and i had to change words because of blocks, and it was incredibly frustrating. I've never had too many problems, rarely failed stuff, but i always hated the fact that even if i studied for weeks, and at home i was confident i would get a 10, during the oral exams and interrogations i would always take 7-8 or less...and i couldn't understand how other people without a stutter could fail. For me my stutter is worse when under pressure, on important phone calls, oral exams, and in general at the beginning of the conversation, if i can get past that then i'm fairly relaxed afterwards.