I’m a female stutterer :’) I’ve been stuttering since I was a kid, and it used to be really bad. I repeat the first letter of a word mostly, but I also have times where I hold onto a word for a long period of time or I am unable to say certain words and I’ll have long pauses of just nothing lol. Sometimes I’ll also have a weird face or a tic when I stutter, and other times I am out of breath because I forget to breathe haha. Now I only really stutter when I’m anxious or when I talk to new people, or when I’m in an argument; it really depends on my mood and the circumstances. To answer your questions based on my perspective: 1. I honestly haven’t really met many people who stutter/have stuttered besides two individuals (one female and one male), so I can’t really be the judge of this one haha. The female and I met on a bus one day and we just started talking, and it turns out she had stuttered before, but she spoke as though she didn’t have a speech impediment - it took her a few years of speech therapy and whatnot to “fix” her stutter, and now she attends some sort of association for stutterers as a guest speaker. I believe she told me she had a lot of pauses in her speech, as well as prolonged words or times where she would be unable to say anything at all. With the male, he repeated a lot of the words/letters while he would be talking (especially when he was nervous), and he would blink a lot while doing so. 2. I think it really depends on the actual person rather than if they stutter or not - I’d be way more comfortable dating someone who is understanding and patient with my stuttering, regardless if they have a stutter. I absolutely hate it when people try to finish my sentences or appear as though they are getting bored/tired as I am trying to speak. Although my ex was not the best boyfriend ever, he was one of the few people who didn’t mind me stuttering and was patient to listen to me all the way through. My current partner, on the other hand, is a very kind and thoughtful person but what he used to find “endearing” about my stuttering has now become more of an annoyance or frustration to him. That being said, I wouldn’t mind dating someone who stutters, as long as they are a kind and responsible individual - I can see the pros in that there may be more understanding between one another, but perhaps the cons may be the frustration between communication sometimes (?). 3. I have never really experienced anyone calling my stuttering “cute” or “adorable”, besides when my boyfriend used to think that it was endearing. People have said that I was “cute” and “adorable”, and it may or may not have anything to do with my stuttering, besides my height and young appearance (in which I both despise :’)). I think I may have heard both those terms too much that it would bother me, regardless if it was about my stuttering or not haha. That aside, I think someone calling my stuttering “cute”/“adorable” sort of may feel a lot better than someone calling it “annoying” or making rude comments, depending on the tone/context/intention. I’ve had a lot of strangers, teachers, and even family members asking if there was something wrong with me or that I should see a doctor, or that I sounded “mentally handicapped”. I’ve also had times where I’ve gotten bad presentation marks in school because of my stuttering, and that made me feel reluctant to talk at times.