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Covert stutterer For all my life I’ve done my absolute best to hide my stutter, and when I was younger I could mask it successfully, atleast the majority of the time. I’m 20 now and these past couple of years it’s become increasingly more difficult to mask my dysfluency due to stress and just life in general as I’ve gotten older. Due to it becoming more difficult to hide my stutter combined with the fact that I naturally am desperate to hide it, I’ve began to isolate myself and avoid far more interactions than I used to. It feels like over time it’s turned into a bigger and bigger “secret” that I feel I must hide from absolutely everyone. Just posting to see if anyone can relate and/or offer some advice. Im not depressed I’m just feeling pretty lost right now in terms of being able to put myself out there again. I have a great deal of social anxiety. I wish I could just not care but I find it so incredibly hard to accept the cards I’ve been dealt. Apologies if this is negative, I just needed to vent.