Okay!!! I will do this. My stutter is 90% just blocks, so this will be something fresh. Maintaining eye contact is something I find crucial as well. I already practiced today and felt great. It’s a bigger step to do it with friends, but I will start small with strangers and build my way up to do it in regular conversations as well. Do you mean stutter my heart away with voluntarily stuttering or just in general? I assume voluntarily stuttering. “You’d be surprised at how many people are patient. “ That’s the thing I’ve realized with stuttering and highly appreciate about people: 90% of the people I talk with are so patient. Everyone has such neutral responses. Sometimes people will crack a smile but that looks more like they find stuttering endearing than a smile of making fun. For a while I’ve had the wrong mindset where I would think that patience and acceptance is conditional. Like I would think if a word takes a bit longer to say or that if my stuttering would get worse, that acceptance would drop and they would have reactions I wouldn’t like. But that’s not true, and I’m trying to let go of that mindset. Finding discomfort is also indeed a dangerously effective technique and mindset to adapt. Recently I was talking with my crush and I had a big block (Start of the sentence). I made no sound for 6-7 seconds and stared right into her eyes with no dodging or trying to hide it. Insanely uncomfortable, I haven’t felt that uncomfortable in a very long time lol. But I’m very glad and proud I did it because I feel like showing our stutter in raw forms only makes us stutter.