When I used to look at myself in the mirror when I stuttered it did look funny. Have you ever laughed at a clown in the circus. We laugh because it looks funny. We are not laughing at the person but rather at what he is doing. I understand that some people will laugh at what we are doing but not necessarily laughing at me as a person. The problem we often look at ourselves as a stutterer as opposed to a person who stutters. This is why I spent a lot of time and energy trying to eliminate as mush as I could have my stuttering. After studying why fluent speakers don’t stutter I was able to mimic their way of speaking. This allowed me to basically become stutter free. I have not been laughed at after that. It has been a life changing experience.