25F, moderate stutter, engaged. I've stuttered since I was little and have never met another female stutterer. I find that it not being as common in woman makes strangers more unintentionally cruel, as it never ever passes their mind that the reason I'm struggling to say my name, or anything else, is because I have a stutter. My self esteem has suffered so much growing up, and that combined with being gay (before I realised)I always have felt so different from everybody else, like I was broken. Dating was hard, because I dated woman I feel that they maybe less likely to say anything outwordly cruel (I am so sorry that happened to you) but every single time I would be having amazing conversations over text, but I never made it past the first date. I was never told that it was because of my stutter, but I can tell that it was. Things changed a lot when I met my fiancée, she didn't care about it at all and encourages me all the time to say the things I want to say. She's the only person I won't swap words in front of. She makes phone calls for me and always orders at the drive through. Only thing now that petrifies me is speaking at our wedding ! I say this to tell you that yes we are in the minority, and I might not be able to give you a perspective from dating a man, however there are so many people out there who don't care at all,even find it endearing. So many people are the same now, I've embraced being a little different.