As a not-ugly guy, I think being soft spoken and approachable also adds to the pretty privilege on my part. Hearing how you are when depressed is interesting, because when I’m depressed, my anxiety and other negative emotions are also real high, so I’m way more distracted, causing my stutter to be pretty bad. As for what people say about it—I’ve been told my stutter was a nice part of me and interesting by old friends, but on the other side, I would get a few kids back in middle school that would mock it, and these days, people close to me comment on it, or sometimes look impatient when I stutter, which throws me off, making it worse. For doing things non-stutters do, I definitely struggle. I’m not very fluent even when I’m not stuttering, I’m very jumbled. I’m also very socially anxious. I think stuttering all my life has thrown off my speech development pretty bad, but recently I’ve been figuring that out, I’ll probably check myself into some well needed speech therapy since I didn’t get any when I was a kid. But anyhow, it’s nice you’ve been relatively trauma free stutter-wise, it’s refreshing to see. I’m gonna try and take some notes from your book, hope you flourish in life.