I agree with your general sentiment -- I heard Emily Blunt give a Fresh Air interview about her childhood stutter, but she obviously wasn't stuttering or showing any signs of it. I actually kind of find it insulting when childhood stutterers are lumped in with people like me (I'm 30) because it almost seems to hint "boy, they figured it out, why can't you?". And people like Joe Biden and John Stossel, it doesn't feel very characteristic of us because they give these performances in front of scores of people while I can't order food without blocking, hah! Other people on that list seem reasonable to me though. Just some random thoughts: Mel Tellis died recently, and there was a clip of him on the NYTimes obit doing a variety entertainment show. He's doing a lot of real-deal blocking in the clip, I found it admirable! He also named his airplane something like "Stutterer 1". I saw James Earl Jones speak in a documentary, and he did that "jaw-lock-block" that I sometimes do. You open your mouth, block, and then rush a bunch of words out afterwards. There's a great article about stuttering in the New York Review of Books and it concludes with how Marilyn Monroe was acting in a famous film and one of her memorable comments had to be re-taken a bunch of times because she kept stuttering on it. And last thing that comes to mind, the NBA Chicago Bulls player has an inspiring story -- I think his wife left him, she wrote a note to him that said something to the effect of "I'm sick of being with a stutterer". He had trouble finding work for awhile and eventually started putting himself out there and got elected to some position in public office all while continuing to stutter. And, of course, I liked the "The King's Speech"! Just some random thoughts, but I hear ya! :-D