Ok VERY late to this but don’t EVER call us stutterers dramatic, as you haven’t been in our shoes. “At least with a stutter you can get your words out clearly”, first off, people can’t understand me because of it. We sometimes purposely mispronounce things just to get our words out. And we DON’T get our words out clearly, don’t know what made you think that. And at least with a lisp you can get your words out at ALL. And a stutter IS debailting. With a lisp yes you may sound funny but you can get your words out quick and easy. But with a stutter, especially depending on the severity, you literally sound like you’re malfunctioning and you make yourself look “dumb” in front of others and you have to hope the person is patient enough. Ordering, calling, basic communication is very hard. And a lisp is very more easy to fix then a stutter, especially if you continue to stutter after the age of six. Even if your lisp continues in adult hood, you can cure it with a couple of months of speech therapy even from home. But with a stutter, it’s for life, no matter how much treatment. You stutter FOREVER. “I think people seem to be more dramatic about having a stutter”. How you try and live in our shoes. How about you try to physically having your strain yourself to get a word out, causing chest pain, how about you experience constant mental and physical exhaustion, how about you try having blocks, which means what you wanna say is literally stuck in your throat, making you go “mute” for a couple of seconds, or more then that, how about you try dealing with everyday frustration and embarrassment, how about you try physically not being able to breathe during a bad stutter fit, how about you try to deal with sore throats and numb tongues and the psychological and mental torment? How about you try to have people literally walk away from you because you’re taking too long to just simply speak, how about you try to have people constantly rush you and finish your sentences and thinking you’re dumb and constant impatience, then how about you try ordering, calling for a taxi, talking to people, and then having to deal with the constant annoyance from you and others every single day? Then the fact that stutterers are more prone to mental health problems then non-stutterers, people killed themselves because of it, people stopped talking completely because of it and they switch to ASL or other methods, people not understanding you, living with a very stigmatized disability, and yeah. You wouldn’t like it if I said that people with a lisp are being dramatic about having one, yet I’m not. Don’t speak about something you don’t have if you don’t have it or aren’t willing to do basic research.