Made me feel like one too. Still does once in a great while. It gets better, but only as long as you keep shooting your shot. As for the friends, I don't know. If I didn't stutter maybe I would make the same jokes about it. I try to give people some leeway with that if they're an otherwise good person. But it's a personal preference I guess. I just make fun of them back. No one is perfect. Go hard.