It’s also possible to be mostly a covert stutterer - meaning you put so much energy into hiding it, most people don’t notice it. Especially after high stress events, you can have less energy to “hide it”, and it starts to present differently. I’ve always considered myself a stutterer (mostly huge fear w my name and those sounds, and answering phone). In camp at 6th grade, my parents “had to” introduce me. My godmother, who lived in our town, is a SLP, and had no idea I suffered from stuttering. Just this past summer, I spent time w a few other SLPs, and was constantly changing my words or just completely giving up talking. SLPs still had no idea. They even “complimented” my talking - bc they heard I had been suffering from dysfluency. Their compliments were *not* a good feeling.