Here’s what happened to me and hopefully you can find a positive perspective in your own life. It’s a slippery slope into reclusion. I was a social being at your age. After HS, stuttering slowly became a bigger deal to me. I let it control my social life I slowly started to avoid social activities outside work. It was easier for me to say no than to experience anxiety. Eventually I had no more friends and people stopped asking to hang out, because I never hung out. I now work, exercise, and go home. I have zero friends outside of work. I let my anxiety win. But I’m not old yet and I have tike to change. I feel like maybe I’ll start to venture out again, since my stuttering has gotten better recently. Don’t do what I did. Tell them your issue and real friends won’t care. Crying now is better than crying for the rest of your adulthood.