I feel like this too. It’s hard to feel confident in social situations when you have impending stuttering weighing on you. Life has thrown me situations recently that have forced me to confront stuttering head on - I had to make a bunch of calls to fix a flooding issue in my house. Before each call I was so anxious, and stuttered on each call, but I slowly started to gain confidence and realized that even if my fluency wasn’t good, no one cared. I still have anxiety about stuttering, but the forced exposure therapy really helped. Each interaction that you have with other people helps you learn - different tricks to use, how people actually respond(rather than assuming how they will respond), and that some situations are much smaller than how you feel preemptively. I’m not saying to go out and talk to everyone or make a bunch of phone calls right away. Little steps to us are really big steps. But I would have never realized how much this little boost of confidence felt had I not gone against my anxiety and made those calls. I’ll never have perfect fluency but it doesn’t fucking matter - I have things to say and god damn it I’m going to say them even if it takes longer than most people, or I have to say them in a roundabout way.