This hit me so hard. I've just had a talk with my mom about it. I'm 19 and just returned to speech therapy. They keep reminding me to implement and internalize the techniques I'm learning there because during the sessions they work. However, I can't seem to put them to the test when speaking with my parents because I can feel their expectant faces. When I was little they were so freaking insistent and pressuring about improving my stuttering that now it's become a very sensitive topic that never fails to get me all defensive. They never normalized it, so there's this big elephant in the room that follows me around but doubles it's size when my parents are present. It's exhausting.