You're not overthinking at all! I understand you perfectly and it's something that frustrates me a lot too. It happens to me frequently. When they do that, it's like they're invalidating a huge portion of our very experience of reality and life. For example, recently one of my professors wanted to have a private conversation with me about some personal problems I was having in college. She said I could confide in her about anything. But when I tried to share some of my struggles with stuttering with her, she would not hear of it. She said it is not a problem at all & is not something that needs to be discussed. I didn't try to make her understand then, but later I ended up writing a personal letter to her explaining how much stuttering has affected my life and how it still causes problems and struggles in my daily life. Usually I never try to make people understand, but in that particular instance I gave it a shot because I had no other person in my life with whom I could talk about stuttering. Often I think it's because they don't realise the impact it can have on your life, that they dismiss it as someone unworthy of attention. "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 Only way to change this is to spread awareness on stuttering. I wrote an article as part of my efforts to do so- https://onelonevoice101.blogspot.com/2023/11/demystifying-struggle-to-speak.html