Maybe you can make a poll instead. I'm interested in everyone's answer also. For me, telling people that I stutter, leads to stuttering more because then I start identifying myself as a person who stutters (or perceiving an image of myself stuttering), at least, for me it primes stuttering (or prepares a stutter state and a social expectation that it's okay to justify stuttering), if that makes any sense. So, I think that the way we perceive our own stuttering, triggers stuttering