Many people don’t realize I stutter until they’ve known me for awhile. After a few drinks I can’t shut up, no stutter. Also, if I’m reading aloud from a book/text/whatever, no stutter. Being relaxed helps, but if I have to give a presentation at work…. All bets are off. I miss my old boss because he totally understood and would step in seamlessly for me because I’d be so visibly nervous and passing out from not breathing. That said, OP’s example of A is interesting. If I have to say the name Allison I would just freeze up (i worked at Starbucks and had to speak this girls name a lot) I stuttered so bad growing up I didn’t speak until I was like 4 and had at least 16 years of speech therapy, in school, during the summer. I know all the breathing exercises, those shapes you follow for inhaling/ exhaling. But when your panicking none of those work, I developed an extensive vocabulary out of a necessity as a workaround to avoid my trigger vowels. Got bullied a lot. My partner stutters and I forget he does too, until he hits his triggers. In a theatre production he was in he had to say “lay me a bet, little brother” but *li* in “little” was his. He couldn’t get past that word. Just “liiiiii” and I know his triggers too now. It’s weird how you think it’s gone until it’s just not.