surprisingly, this stance (“rather be mute than stuttering”) is fairly common for PWS. i’ve read many articles and some academic journals on it. there’s even a short film titled Stutterer with this very thing as the plot. Stutterer, an Irish/UK co-production won an Oscar for best live action short film at the 88th Academy Awards in 2016. The short revolves around a lonely typographer named Greenwood (Matthew Needham), who has struggled with enunciation and basic communication all his life due to his stammer, to the point *where it’s easier to use sign language* than to even try to muster up the strength to communicate.