managing blocks

managing blocks I don't know if what I have is stutter, but I sometimes get blocks, like pausing in the middle of speaking. They are long enough that some people mistake it as a "I am done" pause and interrupt so I don't get to say the next sentence. Sometimes I say one sentence and they think I said two sentences which leads to misunderstanding. For those of you who have a block type of stutter, how do you manage this and what do you do to have people not misunderstand you? I was thinking of going back to the old habit of using filler words or repeating previous words to fill in blocks, but then I'm like "do I really have stutter then? Am I essentially just faking a repeat type of stutter to buy time?"