It seems like you think you're stuttering because your mind is telling you you're going to. But more likely (as is the case with me, personally) your mind is telling you're going to stutter on a word because you have before, and often. With our own names, that makes plenty of sense, as we're forced to say that often, and there's no 'substitution' for it. This is less of a self-fulfilling prophecy and more a case of just remembering a bad, recurring situation. I read an account of a man who actually legally changed his name just to avoid this issue. He changed it to something that he could say fluently. As time went on though, he began having problems with even his new name, until eventually, it was just as problematic as his old one. This is my own experience with stuttering. It is weirdly, randomly transient. What's easy for me to say now might not be by this time next year. In my teens, I could talk on a telephone without any issue. Now? No way. Maybe there will be a time where I can once again use the telephone. Sometimes I go through phases where I can say my name perfectly. Other times, I'll have year-long phases where it's unthinkable. It's pointless to fight it. Now, when I hear in my mind that I'm going to stutter on something (my brain's way of reminding me what 'phase' I'm currently in), I stop and might say something light, like, "Wow, this is going to be hard to get out, bear with me!" And it is hard to get out, but the other person knows and waits, and I don't have the added pressure of trying *not* to stutter on top it. Now, it's expected. As others have said, there is no cure for stuttering. Our goal is to learn how to stutter *productively*. Fighting it makes it worse, avoiding it breeds anxiety, which also makes it worse. You don't want to not stutter on those problem words (that's impossible), you want to stutter better.