Thank you for sharing. I can totally relate to this. When I started a new school (long time ago, I'm an old man now) I didn't know anybody. Even though I stuttered pretty much at the time I managed not to the first days of school. After that I thought it would sound weird if I started to speak with a stutter all of a sudden. So i kept in the background, and didn't say much, just a short fluent sentence here and there. Didn't feel comfortable at all. At the same time my stutter grew worse at home, where it could be let out. After 6 months the pressure became to much and I ended up dropping out. It took me some years before I realized that everybody must have heard that I had a stutter. I'm pretty sure I just fooled myself with the 'fluency'. (first night out after starting the next school I got really drunk and went around telling every single person that I have a stutter. Completely fluent of course thanks to the drunkenness.)