I started caring less about my fluency in my 30s and it helped a lot. I probably stutter a lot more than I realize, but who cares? It's liberating just being me. I block every now and then, but can now usually just pause and continue. Does it sound weird to listeners? Maybe a little? But I think stutterers tend to focus too much on stuff like how they're being perceived. In my 20s, when my speech was worse, I kind of had a "woe is me" attitude, and "if only I didn't have a stutter I could do X and Y". I can now tell you that my stand up comedy didn't bomb because of my speech; it was the lack of things like punchlines. Same for finding a lady. I needed to work on basic stuff like talking about things they find interesting, rather than improving my fluency. If someone doesn't want to socialize with me because of my speech I consider that a win / win and their loss. That said, I never get that feeling. If someone doesn't want to hang out with me it's probably because I tend to talk too much.