I have been through a lot of speech therapy throughout my life, especially when I was a kid. I am 24 now. I would say what you are doing now is the perfect preparation for speech therapy. Putting yourself out there and accepting your stutter as part of who you are is the perfect thing to do before you start doing speech therapy, because you won’t be as hard on yourself if you feel the therapy isn’t working the way you want it to. As someone else in this thread said, it should be used as a tool when you need it in day to day life, not a cure-all. For me, I did the opposite. I went to speech therapy before I accepted myself as a stutter. Went I was kid, I felt so pressured to make it perfect that it would only make it worse. And I would get trapped inside my head and become so self-conscious that I would make my blocks worse. I’ve only truly started to accept it in the two years, and NOW I have been able to reintroduce those tools, and my speech has gotten SIGNIFICANTLY better. So yes, I would definitely recommend speech therapy. I would suggest trying to find someone who not only teaches you the physical techniques, but also encourages/focuses on the mental aspect on it. Like how to not be too hard on yourself or to accept that your speech is part of who you are, and if no one sees that, then fuck ‘em. Be proud of who you are! Self-love is what it’s all about. If you are having trouble accepting yourself as a stutter, I was also highly recommend going to your local NSA chapter! I’ve been going now for almost a year and it’s changed my life. Hope this helps. Stutter on my friend!