My story is quite similar. My stutter peaked in severity around that age too (I’m now 35). There are probably a thousand different opinions on this topic — “the way out.” I can only speak for myself. I think, as with all anxieties, avoidant behaviour makes things worse. The more you avoid speaking, the scarier it becomes, the more you tense up and undermine yourself, the worse you speak, and so on. The opposite is true too, that the more you confront your anxiety the more it diminishes, the better you speak, the more confident you become, and therefore the more you confront your anxiety again. I did a lot of therapy and saw limited results. But the biggest change for me came on an almost moral or philosophical level, in changing my attitudes towards my stutter. I used to hate it, feel ashamed by it, feel trapped. I don’t feel that way anymore. The challenge is too truly, deeply accept it — to in fact *love* it. It’s not that I don’t stutter anymore, I do. I just don’t care. I still have the stutter but I don’t have the pain, because I accept it. The thing itself is neutral, our relationship to it is what matters. How we each do this is probably very personal and not transferable. I’d only say: be patient with yourself, understand that this a lifelong project and there are no shortcuts, and try to love and embrace this very challenge itself. This will sound like a banal platitude, but hardship equals opportunity. I almost feel sorry for people who haven’t faced major hardship, because they’ve been deprived of that opportunity to truly confront themselves and grow. P.S. Jordan Peterson is a twat