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Amazing day! I just did my first session with a speech therapist. It was really the best! And I 100% will recommend to every single one. Just listening to general people or getting tips from reddit or YouTube is not it, online would only help to make new friends and meet new people. But meeting an actual professional person and talking to them with your heart out is beyond amazing. 1 hour flew by soo fast and I could finally release all the pentup frustrations!! I have got more sessions coming up later next week and weeks after. I will create other posts about tips and tricks and things I got taught. Main takeaway from the first session: You dont have to mimic others. One of the reason I stutter is I put more pressure into thinking I should try to be perfect as I am imperfect right now, but that is not right. You should accept that you stutter and stutter more (not act fluent infront of others), while try to get your sentences fully through without avoiding people and tough conversations, slowly you will realise your own unique way you speak and start to embrace it. Stuttering is just around 0.7% of you whole communication system, your body posture, body language, eye contacts, tone etc are more important when communicating and conveying message. Also body movements that happen when you stutter such as closing eyes or holding your hand infront of your mouth which you* believe will get you over the word is most times bad and just an illusion. Your speech doesn't depend on your body movements most times, but your brain is sooo used to it then you think its some sort of survival need but in most cases its not. So try your best to speak without these. There are many more tips but these are the important ones in my opinion, I will see how my other sessions go but I am definitely more confident and has already made my Stuttering less. Dont get hooked up with your past achievements or embrassements or others just EMBRACE what you have now and go forwards!