I started stuttering when I was in the 2nd grade. I had to read my essay aloud in front of the whole class of like 20 people. I was struggling to read a couple of sentences without stuttering quite often. However, I didn’t notice anyone laughing when I looked up but that was probably because they felt bad and/or the teacher was watching them. Then later in 6th grade I had to give this presentation at school on a book we’ve been reading. I thought I did ok but I overheard after class that pretty much everyone, including the teacher, was struggling to understand most anything I was saying. Luckily she still gave me an A but it still sucked. I still stutter now but it’s better especially if I’m reading something (still stutter quite noticeably if talking without reading off something though). And I’m certainly better at public speaking now. I have presentations I have to give in some of my college classes but I hardly stutter.