How do you prefer people react during a stuttering block?

How do you prefer people react during a stuttering block? There is a coworker (I'll call her "Cynthia") with whom I've worked with for three years, and every time I'd stutter when talking to her she'd always look away until I got out of the stuttering block. I've always interpreted this as if I'm making *her* uncomfortable or that maybe the physical tics that I exude are too weird for her to look at. That has always made me really uncomfortable/nervous when talking to her because I assumed my stuttering bothered her. I had talked to another coworker about my stuttering (I'll call her "Marie") a few months ago and had sent me [these six tips for speaking with someone who stutters](http://www.stutteringhelp.org/6-tips-speaking-someone-who-stutters). Two of those really stuck out to me: > 2. Let the person know by your manner that you are listening to what he or she says — not how they say it. > 3. Maintain natural eye contact and wait patiently and naturally until the person is finished. Marie had mentioned that before she had talked to me about my stuttering she sent those six tips to Cynthia, and from then on I immediately noticed that Cynthia no longer looked away when i stuttered. I recently got the courage to confront Cynthia about it and to figure out why she always looked away when I stuttered, and she had that it'd help take the pressure off of me if she didn't look at me when I stuttered. So I'm curious how *other* stutterers prefer other people react when they stutter: 1. Prefer that they just look at you "normally" (basically not to 'react' at all) when you stutter. 2. Prefer that they look away when you stutter to try to "take the pressure off of you". 3. Something else? *I* much prefer option 1 since it makes me feel less weird about it. I'm curious if that's the general consensus here or if any of you prefer a different reaction.