There’s a concept in the human psyche - when someone feels deep, longterm, passive hopeless, one thing that *can* help them alter their neurotransmitters (to feel more active) is being understood where they are. Hearing “I see you. You are suffering in this place. I truly understand bc I feel similarly” can be the thing that gets them starting to move through it. If you are fluent when speaking alone but have *massive blocks* when talking to others (resulting is prioritizing getting any words out, even if they aren’t remotely true), that’s a god indicator that your stutter is bc you feel poorly about yourself. When my blocks were very bad, I isolated bc I was often greatly misunderstood (due to having little control of my timing, cadence, volume and tone - and often saying completely false things bc that’s all that I could force out.). I was not afraid of other people laughing - just afraid of all the bizarre,untrue things that came out of my mouth. Edit - when giving an address (over phone, to tow truck driver) overconsidered not correcting when they misheard. Or, I was forced to rudely blurt out “say it so I know it’s right”. I would rather just stay silent than sound unnecessarily rude. I’ve also ordered food I hate bc I gave up saying what I actually want.