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Fluent in Speech Therapy I am a lifelong stutterer. My stutter is mostly blocks where I know what word I want to say, but It just won't come out. I'm 95% fluent with my family, making them think I don't need speech therapy. With my close friends I may stutter a little more, but it's not unbearable. However when it comes to everyday interactions (acquaintances, strangers, phone calls, ordering food, saying my name...), I will have at least one block every sentence, making communication difficult and holding me back from things I want to do. I recently started individual and group therapy for the first time at my university, after years of hiding from my stutter. We've learned some speech tools and whatnot, but for the most part I've noticed that I'm 99% fluent in therapy. I'm sure the clinicians are thinking "this guy barely stutters, whats the problem??", but I assure them that it is indeed a problem, and much worse outside of therapy. Also some of the speech tools seem easy to simulate in speech therapy, but are much harder to use in the real world. All this leads me to realize my stutter is extremely situational, and most likely psychological. I feel like there should be someway to use this information to get over my stutter, or at least reach the point where I'm 95% fluent around everybody. Does anyone else have this experience, or any thoughts regarding this?