You shared your personal experience, which sounds great, but it’s not fair to suggest that it’s that way for everyone. When I was 40, I spent 2 years without leaving my house, partially bc I was simply so scared to talk bc of dysfluency. I got fluent also at age 42, but it was *not* because it just happened by itself. Like most of us who learn how to almost completely remove our blocks, we did it by doing some the hard work that OP has said they are not able to do. No one “likes stuttering openly”. But many of us choose to do CONTROLLED, pretend, brief repetitions because we trust it’s the way to *stop the long hard blocks*. This takes a great deal of courage, but we immediately find out that no one laughs