>I get treated like an autistic guy First, please elaborate. Does this happen regularly, or are you relating a particularly bad event? Seeking to understand what you mean. I have one particularly painful memory of being treated like I was neurologically impaired due to a severe block. While I had a severe stutter, only that one memory compares relates to your description of being treated like an autistic person. Trying to walk up to a girl and flirt was terrible. Always a failure. Work was never an issue. I see a lot of people in this sub with concerns about work, but I never really ran into *much* of a problem. Second, as I sit here and think on autism and stuttering, it's an interesting comparison. You could say that fluency is a spectrum. That even non stutterers have the occasional block. Some stutterers are more severe. Stutters present differently. Granted, I guess you could extrapolate to say that *everything* is on a spectrum. >Is having a stutter considered nuerodiverse? Generally speaking, I'd say no. That's just my opinion. Neurodiversity, as I understand it, is lifelong. Whereas stuttering manifests late for some people. Others "grow out of it" (I see red every time I hear "grow out of it." Such a lousy response from a doctor or school when someone is seeking help.) Others find successful speech therapy programs that allow them to achieve fluency. If your only diagnosis is stuttering, then I wouldn't think you're neuro-diverse. But, I'm not the gatekeeper.