Performance art, and dealing with stuff in my life that was way more intense than my stutter. Learning to speak on stage was important though, as the onus became less on typical speech and more on communication. As long as I could be understood, then I was fine - this included being understood with a then severe stutter. Once I realised that if someone is being mean about my speech then they are the problem, over time, the anxiety around it dissipated. [Stammering (or stuttering) pride is even a thing](https://stamma.org/your-voice/say-no-fluentism) and although I don't know if pride is necessarily how I'd describe my feelings towards my stutter, I for sure don't care about hitting the normal definition of fluent anymore.