(Just my experience disclaimer, personal observations! ) I have for sure always been casually treated like I have more serious/entirely different issues from just anxiety and a stutter. I am inclined to think in many job settings only stutterers who make themselves visable as having comorbid limitations would be recognized as neuro whatever. In some settings people might not notice I stutter, usually those settings are less stressful or I am otherwise at ease. High stress phone job yes I would have special needs on that job whoa. BUT Chicken/egg: do I stutter because I am anxious or am I anxious because I stutter?! I often wonder if I was actually passed by spectrum tests because back then public school recognized the "talking funny" was causing 100% of my social and academic issues. No dig at people with other neuro stuff but it feels very limiting to me when people make the assumption that my speech is a neuro/dev issue. I even had someone say "oh dont worry I've been hit in the head too!" Or even people thinking I'm on serious drugs. I find more professional and well dressed (than me) stutterers get a little more deference as "normal people who just talk funny" to fluent folks. Vs stutterers who have worked out strategies or know how to let the judgement of others sincerely roll off their back so it barely changes fluency. Appearances make a difference in how we are perceived obvi but for stutters the expectations we have to meet to pass as fluent are so much more than fluency! Things no one will notice if we do them, but if we don't everyone will notice. That's a lot of pressure to carry around for a lifetime! Halfway through this comment it occurs to me that if the statement is true:Joe Biden is US first "neurodiverse" president. Seriously though I think it's not as simple as stutter=neurodiv and I don't know what it would take for me to even decide if I felt "neurodovergent" because it feels like it should be *more than a feeling*. (This comment was a JOURNEY. Good post).