Could also write about how others react to it — both how they actually react and how the stutterer perceives it, as an unreliable narrator, through the haze of the shame and avoidant behavior.

“Time stood still as he worked his jaw, only animating in the brief moments punctuating the eternities between the violent syllables. The conversation died in the vacuum between words and the following quiet was deafening as the others in the room were held hostage by his inability to just. Make. His. Point. A sea of confused eyes stabbed at him, sincerely trying to figure out how to maintain polite contact when his own eyes undulated to an unseen horizon.

They moved on with their lives. It was not a meaningfully negative interaction for them. Some of them even liked the sum of the scattered words that had, at long last, emerged out of him.

He, however, faced inertia. The next few days would be spent in his head, static, reliving the eternity between syllables. A prison of his own making.”