I strongly believe that one reason behind this is because we don't speak up. 1/100 people stutter, yet I never or rarely have a coversation with someone who stutters. I do speak to people who are hiding it and I strongly suspect they have a stutter. We must stop to remain silent. We must order what we want in a bar/restaurant. We must use the first word that pops up instead of looking for a synonym. We must tell that joke instead of listing to others worse jokes, we must introduce ourself first instead of waiting, we must ask instead of looking for that item in the store for ages. We must use the Drive-in and order what we want.... What I mean is that WE as Persons who stutter have also a responsibility to speak up and not hiding our stutter. If we hide it, we are invisible. So people will be flabbergasted when they hear someone stutter and react in ignorant ways . But I have a feeling that we rather don't talk about it... Pun intended. less than 1% of the population is in a wheelchair, roughly the same amount of people who stutter. Yet we have wheelchair basketball, and many other sports. OK, they can't hide their dissability because they have no choise. PWS have a choice, but is hiding/ignoring it the right choice ? I say, stutter away, educate people. We can do this, one word at a time. ​ $ 0.02