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Question The past 5 months of my life I’ve spent battling my thoughts. I’ve wasted so much time and lost out on a lot of opportunities because I cannot seem to find a solution to dealing with my stutter. I’ve been to an extensive exposure therapy program for 10 days for 2 consecutive years now and every time I left extremely confident and fluent. The key was desensitization. The program forced me to approach strangers in public and give them surveys and it also tackled a lot of feared situations. The most important technique that they told us was advertising (letting the listener know that you have a stutter). Now the problem with that for me is that I do not want to tell every to person I meet that I have a stutter so I spent the last 5 months wrestling with that. I understand that it is essential for removing the anticipation of a stutter coming and the judgement that may result from that, but you come off as insecure when you automate advertising to every moderately length speaking situation involving a new person. How would you guys approach this?