What if you want to join a book club and it's a requirement to read in a group, what then? Are you supposed to avoid what you want to do, avoid these "artificial situations"? Like I said before, stuttering costs you everything, you may not realize it but you're trapped, you make choices based on the limitations of your stutter. Reality is that no matter how much you try to convince yourself, you would've lived a happier life without your stuttering disability.