1. No. I still find myself stuttering, my speech pattern does not change either. It is still harshly chopped up, with pauses in the wrong part of a sentence (sounds almost as if I was out of breath). I have traced back my family lineage. My grandmother and great grandfather (mothers side) both stuttered from children into adulthood. 2. No. I do not find myself stuttering after thinking about my stutter. 3. I can often feel right before I will stutter. In regular conversations I may have time to quickly change my sentence (whether that be adding in random filler words, or jumbling my word order. More often than not I just stutter because it stresses me more) But in a prepared speech, even just reading aloud from a PowerPoint or a sentence from class notes - I cannot change the sentence around, I often find myself stuttering in these moments. Anxiety and embarrassment come after, which makes it harder to continue talking. I have been stuttering since I was probably below 5 (now 17). This has allowed me to pick up on which sounds/words/syllables/or order of letters, make me stutter the most - I avoid these when talking (makes it harder for me when reading aloud in class or oral assessments) 4. It’s difficult to pinpoint what makes it better but worse could include for me personally: People finishing sentences, rushing me, their reaction to facial tics, there was a lot of mocking and jokes during early high school, I find It takes me time to finish stories I often ruin the flow and pacing of them, some people get visibly uninterested with me finishing talking or just talk overtop to make it stop. Also waiting in queue, I just fixate on the first word I plan on saying and mess up royally every time. 5. Starting sentences with “W” (what, when, would etc). Can, could, “Sh, S” sounds, there’s more those are just some.