To be perfectly honest... it's not advisable to think of stutter in this way. "The good life" isn't hiding behind a wall called stuttering. We're not barred from "happiness" on account of not speaking quite right all the time. If we understand ourselves as forever locked out from all the things we want to do, that our stutter is keeping us from, we're doing ourselves a disservice in the mindset department. The alternative to not feeling good about stuttering isn't "imagine the stutter being magically gone". This makes success impossible. There's no magic in the world like that. The _real_ alternative to not feeling good about stuttering is working on improving both the stutter and the feelings about it. Some will start to feel better once the stutter is easier to handle, and others will have to work with the feelings directly. Some might even see improvements to the stutter just from addressing the feelings. I know it sounds like I'm being unnecessarily harsh on an innocently imagined scenario, but I sincerely think it's important that we realize what our imagination can do to us. It can make us think stutter is a thing we'll never get rid of... but it can also help us see that maybe there are steps we can take to get better, and not picture our stutter as insurmountable. We need to think differently to be able to make a difference.