Hi, welcome to the subreddit! For starters, I'd recommend you start reading some very helpful books available for free online. I'd recommend Self theapy for the stutterer by the Stuttering Foundation to get your feet wet. It's available here - https://www.stutteringhelp.org/sites/default/files/Migrate/book0012_11th_ed.pdf Now moving on to your stutter. Every individual's stutter is unique, in how they deal with it or what words or sounds they tend to block on or secondary features such as head movements, closing of the eyes, etc.; but there is also a lot of commanlity in all of us and that is what helps us relate to each other better. We all stutter when we're nervous, some stutter when they're angry, some don't. Tiredness also brings with increased patterns of stuttering, that is why it is essential to get some good sleep and exercise to keep your energy levels up. Majority of us stutter on our first names. I've dealt in earlier posts on why that is so. There are no alternatives to our first name. This is pertinent because when we generally talk, we make the words up as we go and when we see a block coming (we're all soothsayers, aren't we?), we substitute it with another word. Now, like I said before, no alternatives to our name, so when we are faced with a situation where we have to say our name, we have no escape. We must say it and that's where we get stuck. You'll be able to say someone else's name quite alright, try it. A lot of stutterers get around it by saying their last name first. It helps to keep things going. If your friends say that they don't notice your stutter, maybe your stutter isn't really all that bad. We do tend to amplify our flaws a lot. Stuttering is a common speech issue. A lot of people who you regard as fluent would stutter occassionally. Though one big difference is that they just shrugg it off and move on. We, who are more habitual to stutter, we tend to stay with it. We love to entertain the devil in our mind. Here's an example, let's take the former POTUS, Obama, irrespective of our political opinions, I think we can draw a general consensus that he is an articulate, charasmatic and persuasive speaker. Now try to google Obama stutter/stammer. You will find a large repository of videos of his speeches where he's stuttering. But he regains his control on his speech and he's back to being his articulate self. I really wonder why we can't treat blocks the same way? People who are fluent cannot see their blocks coming, but we can! We're blessed with that foresight. We can treat it like a speedbump. Just like we slow down our car when we're approaching one, manouver over the bump and regain pace, we can do so with speech too. Sometimes we just need to shrugg off blocks and just go on. We on the other hand get so caught up in our stutter and feel bad about it. We entertain these self depracating thoughts about how we're ineffective communicators and we'll never make it or oh boy here we go again, or how do I get out of this situation ASAP, etc. I faced a similar situation not too long ago. I was attending this forum and I sat across a woman who I was supposed to share my experience with on the instructions of the speaker. I started talking and I felt that I was stuttering, I paused and told her about my stutter. She was quite taken aback. She said she didn't even realise I stuttered and asked me twice if I was just making it up. Point being that, we need to move on when we face blocks. Imagine if we stopped the car right in the middle of speedbump every time we faced one. We'd never get anywhere. All this is easier said than done and it will take time, practice and determination to develop that mindset. But stay at it. At times you'll fall and fall hard, but it'd be easier to get back up. Have you tried seeking speech therapy? If you haven't, you should check your local area for a good speech therapist or seek out a local stutterng group who organise meets. I wish you the best of success.