I discovered than when I explain to my friend how exhausting can be a day when I stutter a lot, they understand better. For them, I think they feel at the beginning like : "ok, it's like me when I am shy to go to speak in front of the class, but just in a bigger way, not great but no big dea'l". So we need to show them that it's not just that. To do so I explain them all the exhausting stuffs that I am doing in my mind in a conversation where I stutter a lot. For me it's like that : " A person that doesn't stutter, when she speaksw she needs to focus on how to convey emotion and meaning. Me, it's the same. But additionnaly, I need sometimes to find synonyms to a word 3 times because I thought that the word will block. Or change tones to say it more smoothly. Or even sometimes changing or removing an entire sentences... And at the same times if stress arise, I need to try to remember all the lessons about stress management, breathing, etc... But having all of that to manage can be overwhelming, and can leads to some blocking, that leads to more stress, that leads to more efforts to manage,....