Everyone figures out their own way to deal with their stutter - or they don't. I've met 3 extremely successful older people - an account manager at Ogilvy, a head of a department within the federal reserve, and a US senator. I've also met dozens more stutters while attending multiple Precision Fluency Shaping Programs over the years. Some were doing just fine in life while others seemed sadly meek and utterly crushed. The Ogilvy guy was an extrovert, class clown, only spoke fluently when addressing a large group of people thanks to the rush of adrenaline (my trick as well). Fed person was obsessed, disciplined, and pedantic in her daily 2-hour practice of PFSP, on top of physical training. The senator had an extremely large vocabulary and was skilled at switching problematic words with easier alternatives. Another kid was a wrestler, state champion, and was only bullied 3 times K-12, which resulted in 3 hospitalizations for the bullies and luckily no charges pressed against him. He went on to become a speech therapist. There was the stoner, who magically stopped stuttering after a blunt (complete opposite effect for me haha). Most hilariously, there was the shredded 6'5 Abercrombie Model, who met his girlfriend when she asked to take a photo outside the store and loved his cute stutter. I don't think it's worth it to expound my method of surviving and overcoming stuttering because I probably was just very lucky. Some months of the year, I'll still revert back to heavy, debilitating stuttering that feels horrible (but has helped me get out of a speeding ticket!). The only advice I can give you is to teach your son to be confident, consistent, and to have gumption. My parents mostly made me feel like my stutter is a horrible disability, a lack of discipline, a failure, etc. Meanwhile no one else around me gave a shit. When I got teased, I leaned into it all the way and teased right back with an obviously forced stutter because man, I love attention. Whatever your son loves, he should lean into that and get freakin good at it. Have confidence from the competence in the stuff he is good at.