I think most stutterers are in the same boat as you are. They don't have severe stutter most of the time and they can express themselves most of the time. However occasionally, their stutter becomes uncontrolled, and then they start beating themselves up. **Let me tell something VERY important:** beating yourself up after a stuttering event is the single WORST thing you can do both for your stutter and for your social anxiety. Every time you do this, in your brain you're strengthening the connection between stutter+social stuation with a negative outcome. **Next time, guess what your brain will do?** It will do everything in its power to FREEZE you and STOP you from speaking (which is coincidentally called 'stuttering' or 'blocking'). Your brain wants to keep you safe from harm, and because you associated stuttering with negative (and potentially harmful) outcome, you brain tries to freeze you in similar future events. What to do instead? * DO NOT beat yourself up for stuttering. You can think about it and analyze why you stuttered, how you stuttered, etc. But do not associate negative connotation with stuttering * Tell yourself it is OK to stutter. It makes you uniquely you. Telling your brain that it is 'ok' to stutter teaches our brain that stuttering is a 'neutral' event and it should not evoke anxiety and fear when you're in a difficult speaking situation. * In a feared speaking situation, try to stutter voluntarily for feared words. I stutter when saying my name, so when I have to say my name in a group situation, I voluntarily stutter saying my name. The world does not stop revolving, and nobody bats an eye when I do this. But it calms me down, and I can focus on what I have to say instead of focusing on not stutterung. * Similar concept with disclosing your stutter. I don't do this, but it seems to help many people Good luck!