For me a change happened when I realized I really had to make a change to live life to the fullest. For me that meant putting myself in uncomfortable and challaning situations. Picking up the phone and calling people, saying things even if I knew I would stutter, etc. It is hard at first but it is amazing how easy it gets fast. A lot of stutterers choose to live life with so much shame and anxiety. I don't like stuttering, but I have learned to live with it. It doesn't rule my life like it did before. I use to get the worst anxiety if I knew I would have to speak, even in the smallest situations. My advise would be to start with small steps you can do daily. Call a store and ask a question. Order food over the phone. Just allowing yourself to stutter in front of people and then realizing you are Ok can do wonders for the psyche. Talk to your friends and parents about stuttering if you never have before. We build up so much mental energy around stuttering over the years... it takes courage to break through those initial barriers, those walls that we have built up over the years. However, once you gain momentum it becomes easier and easier to speak freely, and speak your mind, despite your stutter. Speech therapy can be a great outlet to practice stuttering too. I did a two week program at AIS in NYC (google it) which really changed my life and helped me break down those initial walls.