> Feel anxious about being around and talking with other people > > Feel very self-conscious or embarrassed in front of other people > > Avoid face-to-face interactions and only interact via technology > > Use alcohol or drugs to function in social activities. Tons of people experience these things. These aren't unique to stutterers, and this isn't all being a stutterer is about. A stutter is about trying to express yourself verbally and hitting uncontrollable roadblocks while doing so. Do you experience 'blocks' where you attempt to make a sound but nothing emerges but air? Do you experience moments where you try to say a sound and uncontrollably repeat it or elongate it? Do you experience certain physical tics while doing so, such as closing your eyes, clenching your abdomen, tapping/slapping your leg, moving in spastic manners? Do you feel not in control of your speech, like at times when you want to say something you physically can't get it out? All of the things you list are just byproducts of stutterers experiencing a history of an inability to properly and normally form speech. But they are also generalized social anxiety markers. Stuttering is a motor control problem, not a social anxiety problem. Only you can know if you stutter. You've mentioned nothing in your OP about your actual speech at all, so that's not enough to go on.