Your experiences are very similar to mine, in terms of the initial blocks, physical tension and the impact of social anxiety. I also stuttered much less after a couple of drinks, but I’m glad I didn’t explore this because I have come across some PWS who have become dependent on alcohol because of this. You don’t say how old you are so I’m going to assume you’re a young adult. My advice to you is to find yourself an SLP (if cost is an issue you may want to look into group therapy) who will work with you on *acceptance* rather than fluency. This will involve a lot of exposure and avoidance reduction work, like going to shops and asking the staff questions - at the start it can be quite brutal, but after the first week you start to care much less about how strangers react, and as you practice it even more you’ll notice your baseline anxiety level going into conversations with people you know (and whose opinion you do care about) decreases significantly. I’m in my late 40s now and I’ve come to accept that I’ll always stutter. I won’t lie and tell you I never worry about stuttering, but in 95% of situations I really don’t care any more. It may also have to do with modeling behavior for one of my kids who also stutters, but in the past 5-6 years I haven’t shied away from speaking when I wanted to. One last thing: do you find you stutter more in other languages? I’m fully bilingual (English & Spanish), but I find I stutter much more when trying to speak Italian or French (where I’m nowhere near as fluent).