Hello. I just turned 30 and was the same. Stuttered my whole life, and still do. I get how controversial what I’m about to say is but there comes a point where you have to just not give a shit what other people think. I know... “well no crap I don’t want to care what people think” I get that. Like others said speech therapy can definitely help, but what I personally think is key is confidence. It’s something I really worked on the last 2-3 years. One thing I’d challenge you to do is to be very open about your stuttering, just embrace it. When I started doing this I found so much stress to be just lifted off my shoulders as far as speech went because it put an end to me trying to hide my stuttering from literally everybody. I still stutter with my name, of all things. What a curse. Lol. I also can’t spell my last name without stuttering. I also have extreme social anxiety because of stuttering. I just embrace it now. It is me. Everybody knows I stutter. I was checking into the gym the other day and forgot my keycard to scan to get in. My first thought was “oh man here we go, I have to say and spell my name” it was a young woman checking me in too, which made it worse for me. I’m not exaggerating when I say it took me 3 attempts and 20-30 seconds to tell her my name. She was so patient, which was nice to see instead of the weird faces and sometimes laughs I’ll even get from time to time. I’d be lying if I said I was bothered. The next day though, I went To the gym and forgot my keycard AGAIN. Same girl at the desk. This time I said it way easier. Then I looked at her and said “wow that was easier than yesterday huh? Glad you didn’t have to wait for an hour this time for me to spit it out!” And she just chuckled at my attempt to bring humor to it. That’s the aspect where I’ve changed the most. There’s no point in being ashamed of who you are. You are YOU my friend. I’ve gone from being in grade school and purposely skipping class just so I didn’t have to present a project to my class. I happily took the detention as well. It was worth that to me. Now, believe it or not, I work at a steel mill and my job is to talk on the radio a lot of times. I purposely took this job, even though it horrified me doing it. I publicly broadcast important things to over 100 people in real time about 25-30 times within an 8 hour shift. It challenged me. It challenged my speech. I do this everyday now so I eventually got used to it has become normal. Sometimes I stutter but I just brush it off and try again. This will probably be downvoted. I made a comment like this before and got downvoted like crazy and I think it’s because people misinterpreted what I’m trying to say. I’m not here trying to say “hey, just stop caring it’ll make it better” what I’m trying to say is work on you, work on your confidence even if it makes you uncomfortable. Try your best to embrace who you are and focus on what makes you amazing as human being and not to dwell on what you view as a flaw. It’s not going to happen overnight. Like somebody said above me “it’s like bodybuilding” slow progress is still progress! Good luck with everything.