Stuttering is one of the rare disabilities that can be so incredibly difficult but at the same be stigmatized, minimized and invalidated by most people around you. It stems from the inability for fluent speakers to imagine a speech block, it’s just so unnatural to them. So because it’s so hard to for them to adequately put themselves in our shoes there’s an automatic lack of empathy. It’s the equivalent of telling a blind person “oh yeah sometimes I close my eyes and I’m blind too” What I struggle with a lot is when people assume I stutter because I’m nervous and they try to calm me down in a way. Imagine doing that to a blind person “just slow down and open your eyes” or “Don’t be so nervous”