Yup! Me too. I used to call them blockages when I was a kid because I never really stuttered on a repeated syllable. Sometimes, but most often not. It wasn't until I finally looked up stuttering on Reddit (and found this sub) and tiktok did I find out that the term that seems to be used is "blocking". Like, "On bad days when I'm blocking hard I feel sad..". Or " I blocked for almost 30 seconds yesterday" I believe it's still under the umbrella of stuttering in general. I almost prefer when I go "P-p-p-p-otato" because then the person I'm talking to knows right away I'm stuttering. When I block however, and I say " I like to eat m----------------POtatoes!" The person usually thinks I forgot what I was going to say, or don't know the answer, or just had a brain short circuit. The worst tho is when they assume (even if for just a moment) that you're just dumb because they asked you a simple question like Did your team win the game last night? And I go "um----------------{Silence, eyes pinned rolled back nto my skull}-------umm--------------{lips pursed like I'm playing trumpet}-------nnnno! We lost" They often will be like "what, you don't remember if your team won" or not or your own name or your girlfriends name when you try to introduce her to someone, etc etc and they can assume you're just not very bright. Maybe I'm projecting my fear of that onto them and maybe they don't think anything really besides "that was odd" and maybe ppl don't always think the worst thing. But it FEELS like that, especially with strangers, off the cuff. Like when a waiter asks for your order and you can't get the first sound out. Anyway, I wrote another thread on some methods to reduce blocking that have helped me in emergencies here: