Your description seems very binary to me. On / Off. Stutter / Fluent. My view is more of a spectrum. Everyone has disfluencies of some nature, here or there. PWS have disfluency constantly, or near constantly (maybe consistently is a better word?) And I'm not equating the disfluencies others have to those which PWS have. Many of us who stutter have seen our fluency ebb and flow. Some days are worse. Some are better. There are terrible moments. Choked and unable to speak. Others in which things aren't nearly so bad. But even those not-nearly-so-bad moments are still on the far end of the fluency spectrum. But the point is that our disfluency isn't a fixed point. It's not immutable. Like any skill or ability, if you develop it, it becomes second nature. Natural, effortless, and instinctive. Developing fluency doesn't need to come at the cost of self expression or communicative joy. And when you become more skilled (fluent) the joy can be multiplied, not diminished. e.g. Going from never speaking in front of a class in school to being able to own the room when presenting to colleagues or adult classmates. I will always be a stutterer. But that doesn't mean I have to stutter.