Dude. I’m just going to skip to the harsh truth. YOU are the one reacting to your stutter. Not them. You say you can “see the twitch” and so on. Yes, I understand, they are surprised. Most people don’t stutter, they’re not expecting it. I know what you mean, I’ve had the exact experience as you. Give people a break! Don’t do people the disservice of thinking they’re such bad people that they’ll never want to talk to you because you stutter. They are not going to be able to magically hide their surprise and react perfectly to your stutter. That does not mean they are bad people and it does not mean that they don’t want to talk to you. I think you have this tremendous narrowing of your consciousness, where for your whole life you’ve been convinced “stuttering = they don’t want to talk to me”, you’re absolutely convinced this is true, and you’re clinging to this belief so tightly that it’s swelled to completely unreasonable proportions. Trust me, it’s a fiction. Your brain is doing this, not the other people. You’re creating the exact thing you fear. If you run away from someone and shut them out as soon as you stutter, of course they won’t talk to you again— *because you ran away and shut them out*. Not because you stuttered.