First, I'm sorry. That sucks. Next. Talk to your friend. It might be good for them to hear what you're sharing here. I don't think people that don't stutter have any understanding of the trauma we endure. I hesitate to use the word trauma, but I think it's apt. Taken as a single event, your friend snickering isn't the end of the world. But it's another small cut. Our self worth and self image are always under assault by how others react to our stutter. It's death by a thousand cuts. No one cut is so bad that it breaks us, but we're always bleeding a bit. And the next cut comes before we have time to recover from the last. We're always on guard. We withdraw for fear of another cut. We avoid opening a tab, or some other small action that others take for granted. We rebuke ourselves for our stutter. We rebuke ourselves for avoidances we make because of our stutter. We're isolated and alone with our stutter. It's not healthy. We're here for you. We've been through it. Anything we can do to help, just ask. This subreddit has a lot of great people here with a wealth of experiences.