It feel you. It has it's toll on self expression. But I learned that for the outsiders my stuttering is less noticeable than for myself. My stuttering started to decrease I think the moment I started to talk about it openly. I never talked about it before. But the easier it is to talk about it the less it affects us. It takes the power away. If you don't give power to it. It can be a superpower. Keeping away all the people who cannot see what wonderful person you are. The people who can see beyond your stuttering will stay.