Acknowledging my stutter

Acknowledging my stutter I’ve stuttered probably my whole life. My family doesn’t really acknowledge it or have talked to me about it. I think they don’t want to embarrass me but really all it’s done is make me care way too much about stuttering. Since it’s a taboo topic in my family I don’t want to stutter and cause attention to it. I went all of high school keeping myself quiet because I didn’t want to stutter. I just want to not care about it. In any situation. I’ve never spoken about it to my boyfriend of 3 years about it either. I don’t even know if he knows it’s an actual problem for me, since I’m good at hiding it or replacing words I struggle with. Will acknowledging it to others help get over that initial fear of stuttering?