I'm 17 years old and I'm starting college this year lol. I'm nervous, honestly, because I've been avoiding friends for years just so I don't have to talk to anyone. The only thing I have proposed is that on the first day everyone knows that I am a stutterer, not to be ashamed of them and trust them to accept me, I don't know. I have been leading the life you describe since I was 14, when I started to stutter and refuse to continue. So good luck with yours and if the same thing happens to you as me, you are introverted etc., it is difficult for you to change anything more than anything because you are already perceived this way. Maybe this year I made friends with a girl who didn't stutter, but she didn't speak at all, much less than me. Damn if I had to get the words out of his mouth when I'm the one who always has to get them out of me hahahah. But what I want to say is that there will always be people with the same type of problems as you, try to talk to that type of person, I don't know.