Less speaking anxiety while wearing a mask?

Less speaking anxiety while wearing a mask? I'm 36 and have been stuttering since I was a kid. I'm still mostly covert (word switching, pretending to be thinking when I'm actually stuck on a block, using filler words/sounds for momentum [um, like], mentally restructuring sentences on the fly to avoid problem sounds.) Sometimes I'm braver and commit to actually saying the the words I want to say, even if I stutter. But I also go through periods where I isolate from the world completely so I don't have to deal with it. I've been diagnosed with social phobia, but some people around me don't even know stuttering is an issue for me. I suppose I'm lucky in that regard, but the fear is always there. Anyway, strangely I've found that I have less speaking anxiety when I'm wearing a mask for COVID-19. I think it has to do being self-conscious about my mouth movements when I'm speaking. When I'm struggling with a block I try to keep my mouth as still as possible to avoid making a weird face. There's also the fact that once you open your mouth to speak you've committed, the other person notices that, and you can feel them waiting. There was a phrase I read once, that a stutterer can sense the "lit fuse" when it's their turn to talk, and that increases the pressure. But with a mask, people are less aware of my false starts. Anyway, is anyone else more fluent (or just less anxious) when they're in a mask?