I've had a few ppl DM me asking about how my stutter affected me and how I seemed to overcome it so I thought I would respond here and try and give the best synopsis of my experience that I can. I developed my stutter fairly earl on, maybe first or second grade, and it was consistently present up until my late teens or very early 20's. I would classify it as a moderate stutter. I could occasionally get away with entire paragraphs and sentences (reading or speaking aloud) without a single block, but more often I would hit a block after a sentence or two. These blocks were probably all triggered by the same common sounds and consonants: hard T's, B's, G's, (maybe P's to a lesser extent), Q's. Reading aloud, rehearsed speeches and presentations were always worse for triggers and blocks than mere casual conversation (although I would hit theodd block or trigger then sometimes as well). I did some scattered speech pathology in 3rd or 4th grade during school hours, but nothing I remember very clearly and also nothing I would give much credit to considering I continued with my stutter for many years afterward. As I reached my upper teens and exited high school, somehow my blocks and triggers gradually dissipated and became less frequent and eventually my my early 20's. Beyond that and leading up to today (turning 40 this year), I would consider myself fluent. I have several friends and acquaintances who have no idea I ever stuttered, and probably old friends that have forgotten I ever did. I do still get the very very very seldom odd block on a weird consonant or other word I can usually see coming a few words away, but I'm talking once every few weeks or less. And often only when I'm very tired or extremely nervous. During the height of my stuttering, I did find breathing exercises and rhythmically tapping my hips or a table (etc) in time with the cadence of what I was saying was sometimes enough to carry me through the potential block without any events. But this worked maybe 30-40% of the time at my best guess. I have always been a social, extroverted person, and have spent my adult life in sales-oriented roles, spending the bulk of my days delivering presentations, speeches, and pitches both in person and over the phone with no blocks worth mentioning. I did still run into blocks and triggers when talking over the phone in my early and mid-twenties, but eventually that seemed to go away as well. So I don't know if the answer I'm getting at here is simply "push through it and it will go away" because I'm sure I might just be lucky here and this won't work for everybody. But I do believe that I likely honestly just trained myself via brute force to somewhat push past my stutters and eventually I guess that worked.