\> I still don’t know my trigger yet Saying your own name does not trigger your stutter? This is a high-stake situation: usually a direct question in an unavoidable public setting (everyone else present does it --with ease), and surely you know your own name, yet, you can't substitute it with something else, and past failures in saying your own name likely causes a block. Another theory that I've read: a stutterer doesn't like revealing that s/he stutters; this fear permeates to revealing anything about oneself, including one's own name, the very identity of being you. This often results in being good at pretending to be someone else (e.g. started with using an alias). An outlet for that is to be an actor (look up "actors who stutters in real life"), or secret agents.