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This is a very presumptive and arrogant post, I cannot agree with it at all. I guess this is the kind of thing we call "Toxic Positivity". Finding the courage to go on living, to face fear and challenges in spite of your stutter is true positivity. Being forced to pretend that the suffering which (for many) comes with having a stutter, does not exist, is not positivity at all. What you are suggesting is the same thing that people who stutter often experience from the world, which minimises, dismisses and invalidates their experience of life with a stutter, so that they are forced to question their lived reality and succumb to the belief that stuttering is just a minor inconvenience or even 'nothing at all'. ["Stuttering gets no respect as a disorder," says stuttering expert Dennis Drayna, Ph.D. "People think of it as a mild condition. They don't see that it can have a profound negative impact on the lives of those who have it."] - You are contributing to this problem by talking in such a manner. I know from experience & by reading the testimonies of others that people who stutter often go through profound social and psychological suffering & trauma as a result of their difficulties with stuttering. And they often need a place to pour out their hearts and find compassion & understanding, in a world which is often utterly ignorant of their experience. How absurd that a person who stutters would try to rob them of that safe space! ["Of all the world's errors, he seemed to feel, the most fundamental was the 'erasing' of people, the 'hiding away' of suffering."] ~ Tracy Kidder