Thank you for sharing! Before I read this, I did not know that stuttering could run in a family. This confirms my beliefs that stuttering can be caused by different reasons for different people. There's a self-help stuttering guide I just started reading which has a good quote regarding this: "The old saying that no two stutterers are alike is undoubtedly true". For me, I never went to speech therapy because I couldn't afford it, even when I had health insurance, they wouldn't help offset the costs for speech therapy. Instead I went to my university's health office and they prescribed my anti-anxiety medication. The medication didn't reduce my stuttering but it may have made me a more extroverted person during my later college years. What I think also helped was being in an environment where I can interact with as many people as possible (i.e. college) where I joined many clubs and even performed in an A Capella group and an off-Broadway variety show performance group. Now that I am out of college and not interacting with as many people as I used to, my stuttering has gotten a bit worse, and I don't feel as extroverted as I did during college. Now when I speak, instead of trying to avoid stuttering, I recognize that it'll happen anyway. So I focus more on techniques to speak smoothly. I also think joining this subreddit has helped a lot. Here I can talk about my stuttering with other people who fully understand because they also stutter.