Some thoughts from the partner of a stutterer: Aside from your son saying he’s not bothered, does he actually seem not bothered? My husband at that age would have said his stutter didn’t bother him if asked, but it would have been obvious from how he acted that it did. He rarely talked, he avoided situations where he might have to talk, he didn’t have friends, etc. But if your son says what he wants to and has friends and doesn’t avoid things, then I’d believe him that he’s not bothered. And, it sounds like your husband is worried he might be bullied about his stutter so the solution to that problem is for him to stop stuttering. But I think the better solution is to help him learn how to deal with bullying. My in-laws were really great about this. They would always tell him that somebody being a jerk about his stutter was about them, not him. Bullies weren’t somehow forced to make fun of him because he stuttered, as if they couldn’t behave differently. My MIL would say that there wasn’t anything wrong with stuttering but there was something wrong with being mean. And that actually did help him to reframe it. I should also say that they were very proactive about calling the school if somebody was really harassing him and then making sure the school followed through. So bullying is a real problem but it may not help your son to present not stuttering as the way to deal with it.