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Very well said. My husband stutters, and he’s probably the best listener (and least narcissistic person) that I know. As someone who doesn’t stutter, I can attest that fluent people can also very easily spend the time someone else is talking thinking about what they are going to say next rather than listening. That’s actually just an unfortunately common thing for people to do. And almost nobody is able to just have no emotional reaction if someone mocks them. It’s not like being mocked somehow “triggers” stutterers and not other people. If anything, I’d say it’s the opposite. My husband is able to stay calm and be forgiving and just move on with his day when somebody laughs at him or mimics him or otherwise mocks him in a way I think would be impossible for most other people I know. When people respond like that to him it probably “triggers” me more than it does him, but that doesn’t somehow make me stutter.