Here's the thing - YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ OUT LOUD. Do you have an IEP? (aka Individual Education Plan) If you go to speech therapy at school, then you do. If you don't go to speech in school, you should ABSOLUTELY talk to your parents and ask them to talk to the school to give you an IEP. If you're in a public school in the United States, this is REQUIRED BY LAW. The public school HAS to provide you with an IEP to help make school easier with your stutter. There's two basic parts to the IEP - deciding on what extra services the student gets (like seeing a speech therapist a couple times a week) and making a plan with the school about "accommodations" for the student. Accommodations are things that the school agrees to change about how they teach and what they expect of the student, to "accommodate" the student's special needs. For example, they might agree to let someone with really bad eyesight use an iPad to read all their assignments, so they can be in a really big font. They might agree not to make the kid with leg braces run laps in gym. For people who stutter, you could get them to agree not to ask you to read out loud in class. You could get them to agree not to require you to give presentations in front of class. You could write an essay instead, or maybe be in a group and write or help write the speech for the person who \*does\* give the presentation. These are all PERFECTLY REASONABLE requests that should not even require an IEP. Any reasonable teacher would just say yes...... but not all teachers are reasonable. Luckily the IEP is the law, and the schools and the teachers know it. They legally cannot go against an IEP, or they will get sued and lose 100% of the time. **You do not need to read out loud in class.** In college, I asked a professor who wanted us to do presentations, if I could just not, because of my stutter. He was fine with it. PLEASE talk to your parents. I know it's embarrassing. I know it's hard. Write them an email, if talking in person is too hard. I get that. Or, if you're taking speech therapy at school, ask your speech therapist to talk to your teachers about not doing presentations. If you can, specifically mention "accommodations for my IEP". If you say the magic words, it's really hard for the school to say no, because then they know you know it's the law that they have to do it. I guarantee you, your parents want to help. They know school is hard for you. It may never have occurred to them to just ask the school not to require these things of you. But it's totally normal and this kind of accommodation happens ALL THE TIME. Just ask. Feel free to message me privately if you want to talk more about it (I'm not a creep, I promise). I've been in your shoes. 100%.