Hey first of all thank you so much for asking so respectfully and wanting to know more about stuttering rather than just choosing to be ignorant. Stuttering in general is essentially just a different way of speaking so please just talk to your friend like you’d talk with any other person. And to answer your questions: 1) Yes I promise you your friend knows that she’s stuttering, it’s probably something she has had for a long time. When you say she almost goes in a trance or has a small seizure it’s very likely to be a block. There are different types of stuttering: you have blocks when you’re trying to force out a sound, repetition (this can be full phrases, words or just syllables), or prolongation (where you stretch out the sound in a word). When I personally stutter, I have a lot of tension in my muscles and jaws, and doing some kind of movement helps me to get out of a block. These are often involuntary moments and can involve: blinking exaggeratedly, clicking your tongue, making a fist, facial grimacing etc. They’re different from people to people. Some people do these more than others, some don’t do them at all. So my advice to you is just let your friend take their time to speak and don’t make her feel hyper aware of their stutter because usually it just makes it worse. Maintain eye contact, smile, and just make her feel more relaxed around you because I find myself stammering far less around people who I know aren’t going to judge. Normal conversation is already a very tiresome task for us so anything you can do to help would be amazing! 2. Finishing sentences is something I personally find very disrespectful but it often depends from person to person. I think that sometimes people are so far off from what I was actually trying to say, that it takes more effort to correct them than just having finished my own sentence. But I would ask your friend about this and say something like: “Hey I just wanted to ask would u find it helpful if I finished your sentences for you when you stammer? I can see it being helpful but also quite rude so I wanted to know what you’d prefer.” If you ask respectfully she would probably be more than happy to answer and would like that you’re actually asking her opinion on this. 3) Once again it depends from person to person and how comfortable they are with their stutter. Personally, I tend to hide my stammer most of the time using filler words (I say things such as: like, um, and y’know when I anticipate that I’m going to stammer which is usually every other word lmao). So I like that people just don’t mention it or make me feel self conscious about it but ik some people who are just so confident and open about it and literally don’t give two f’s what other people think. So I wouldn’t bring it up too much with your friend (just be normal) until maybe she brings it up first in which case please just be encouraging, and nice about it. Things I wouldn’t do because that are unhelpful are: Telling her to slow down, spit it out, just take a deep breath. It doesn’t do anything and would just make her more aware of her speech. Once again stammering is just a different way of talking. We are just normal people with opinions, thoughts, interests just like everyone else but it just takes a lil bit longer to say things.