A friend of mine who stutters recently shared a long social media thread on stuttering, written by a guy named Charles Repine, who says he has stuttered for 35 years. Repine writes eloquently about the various avoidance behaviors he and other people who stutter often adopt to keep from stuttering in public. (“Substituting a feared word for a word that’s easier to say.” “Sentence abandonment: Recognizing that you’re about to stutter and just giving up entirely.” “Putting off saying a feared word or sound until it comes out fluently.”)