You're right that someone will always have it worse, and while I think it's reasonable to compare and contrast disabilities, I *do* think it's bad to compete argumentatively by saying one disorder is "worse" than the other. It's multivariate - it depends on age, mental stability, physical stability, trauma, lifestyle, relationships, etc. This all factors in to how everyone struggles differently. No struggle trumps any other, because it's all subjective to each individual. It's impossible to prove that one type of pain for one person is worse than a different type of pain for someone else. It's hard to measure pain to begin with to even *try* and compare - that's why doctors still have you point to a chart so they can estimate how you're feeling. Otherwise, they would just run a pain measurement test, but they can't do that. And I think it's wonderful that you've developed fluency (that is our goal after all), but stuttering does not have a known cure, and most stutterers will never achieve full fluency. So, just like many other disorders - physical or otherwise - there's no clear end to the struggle. Also, dysphemia/stuttering is a neurophysiological disorder. So already it's silly to try and have it compete with a completely different type of disorder. You mentioned how you've seen people trying to "equate" stuttering to blindness, and you're right that that's crazy. I'm sure you could make a successful venn diagram with both of them, but it's pointless. The only features that would meet in both circles would be very arbitrary things, like "pain, embarrassment, fear", etc. Those things apply to millions of other medical problems. So just to clarify, I think comparing and contrasting is possible with different types of disorders, and sometimes important (especially for science) when trying to learn about other people's problems and try to relate to them. But, having two disorders compete to see who has the worse pain, is a competition with no winner.