Pretending to forget what you were gunna say unconsciously causes us shame. Tell your friends that sometimes you need to just stop and breath because you stutter. Our heart and mind were designed for honesty. It heals us to tell the truth. The more you try to avoid stuttering the more it will happen. The only way is to be at peace with it. Trying to impress others will just continue to reinforce a mindset of needing to fit in with others, which dims our creativity and originality. Don’t dim your originality! This is advice for myself too! That’s why, I believe for most people that stutter, we stutter less when expressing agreement with others than when we state our disagreements. Because we have atrophied our strength to the point that we only feel safe to be like other people. But somebody’s gotta be a leader, why not you, why not us?! I would really recommend the Dave McGuire course. They have an inexpensive self help book on Amazon called “Beyond Stammering: The Mcguire Program for getting good at the Sport of Speaking.” You can have the book downloaded onto your phone in minutes if you get the Amazon Kindle app. The book will go through psychological reasons for stuttering, give you a breathing technique, and inspire you to get out and practice speaking. The program will be fear inducing but use the people closest to you for support. Keep practicing the techniques and follow what the book says. Then I recommend reading “Redefining Stuttering” by John Harrison, someone who stuttered for many years and was part of the National Stuttering Association for many years. You can find a free link to the book if you google the title. If you can’t find it I will help send you a link. I was surprised to find the book for free after seeing it was sold out on Amazon.