Sorry to hear that kinda person, but this post is sorta insensitive. Not everybody is going to react or is able to react the same way as you, and that’s perfectly ok. Me personally, the people who vent up here are actually showing how brave they are, letting themselves be vulnerable just for a moment to relive themselves from the pain. But the thing is, stuttering IS a disability, and it’s not only our attitude, it really is the people around us that make it harder than it has to be. We face inequalities because of it. Now of course, you can make friends and relationships with a stutter, but it’s sorta hard when those people constantly bully you, laugh at you, go out their way to “help” you, etc. It isn’t our additude, it’s the world’s misunderstanding. I think what you’re not understanding is that stuttering is a really debilitating disability. It CAN absolutely destroy your life, and it doesn’t help with how stigmatized and misinformed it really is. You make it sound like it’s perfectly fine and everybody should be able to do what you do, but not everybody is like you. And purely blaming on the stutterers fault instead of the people mocking us, laughing at us, bullying us, teasing us, etc, is self-blaming. And then calling us lazy??? Again, do you not know what stuttering can do to your mental health? I’ve also been laughed say, mocked, and teased, and I’m still as cautious as ever, and I and every other stutter has every right to be cautious when with people because of how we’re casually treated by them. Sorry to say, but people DO avoid us because we stutter. They avoid us because they’re uncomfortable with the way we talk, and they don’t want to have the patience to listen to us. That’s why awareness is important and can go a long way. Talking is one of the most important tools in a lifetime. You share stories with it, communicate your emotions, share your ideas, and so many other things. Imagine if that ability was so severely impaired that you couldn’t even say your name? That it hurt every single time you spoke? Instead of focusing on blaming stutterers for our reasonable fear of people and being more socially aware then others, we should focus on spreading awareness to it about everybody and have them change THEIR ways, because THEY are the ones unwilling to actually learn about what stuttering actually is. We have every right to blame the word when they constantly treat us like dirt, and bullying can have a huge impact. I forgot while typing this that you are also a stutterer, so out of everyone you should be able to understand this more than anybody else, but for some reason you don’t or choose not. I’m not saying you’re not a stutterer, but I genuinely doubt people’s experiences when they post stuff like this invaliding a stutterers experience and how “it’s our fault for the way we speak and how the world treats us”, and they make it seem as easy as pie, when it’s not. Sorry this is so long.