Great post u/popquizkid_ ! identify with many of the scenarios you listed. I'd like add a few of my own. The telephone is a HUGE hurdle for me. I get ridiculously anxious when I have to call someone I don't know that I'll often have a few drinks or smoke a joint before the call. I still get anxious and avoid calling family and friends but less so than strangers. Nonetheless I have friends that I'd love to be able to talk a few times per month on the phone but I call them maybe once or twice a year. * Avoiding telephone/Face time calls like the plague. * Whenever someone around me is on Face Time or speakerphone with a mutual friend. I make myself busy doing chores in another room or hide out in the bathroom so I don't have to feel so frustrated and ashamed of my stutter. * Before smartphones and webcams with microphones on every laptop. I'd lie and say I don't have a mic for voice chat even though I had a fairly pricey microphone right under my monitor. Why I bought a mic knowing I hate physically talking? Your guess is a good as mine. 🥸🤪 Non-phone related stuttering "tricks" I use to get out of talking. * I usually have my earbuds in when I'm in public so people try to don't talk me. I hate doing that as I genuinely enjoy conversation with pretty much anyone. It's the physically talking part that's troublesome for me. * Chinese food is likely my favorite because I can just circle or point out items on the giant menu; Instead of verbally ordering like you have to at pretty much any other restaurant. * I'll pretend to be deeply engrossed in a book or my phone when I'm sitting in waiting room so people don't initiate conversation. * Pretend I don't know things so I don't have to stutter out an answer. I know there's plenty more for me but that's what comes to mind when I'm on my way to bed at 5AM