Glad to hear you're engaging on at least a friendly manner, sorry for jumping the gun on that. I don't think I have social anxiety so I don't know exactly what it feels like for you, but one thing that helps me when I do speech assignments that feel scary, is I focus on a specific goal. So if you see a coworker you know is a football fan and you just want to say, "hey, you see that Lions game? what a bunch of bullshit they always get screwed by the refs WE NEVER GET ANY RESP--" sorry, still a little salty. But if you're anxious about making small talk about football or game of thrones or whatever, give yourself a goal and make it very specific. Things like, *I'm going to ask him if he saw the game* or *I heard him talking about a show I watch. I'm going to ask him what he thought about that interesting thing that happened*. You don't need to worry about the rest of the conversation or how to follow up, just focus on your goal of saying that one thing you want to say. Having a goal to focus on leaves less room for the random anxious thoughts to run amok. Also, what is it about small talk that's difficult? Is it the stutter and you generally have a tougher time with your speech trying to make small talk? Is it the general social anxiety? Is it just not really knowing how to keep small talk going without it being awkward? All 3 maybe? I think letting them know and hear you stutter will help with the first two. If you don't want them to know you stutter, you can't really be yourself around them and that makes it hard to connect with people. If you want to actually disclose, it can be as easy as "by the way, I have a stutter if you're wondering why I'm talking like this". Most people are more uncomfortable about it than you are since they don't know how to act so if you can make a joke while disclosing, that's been the best for me. "By the way, I stutter so if you ever mishear me, just wait a few seconds."