~~Stuttering is the only disability that is still treated as a joke. Yes, it is disability. Don't be "careful" about calling it a disability-- be aware.~~ By the way, I just realized that this person is talking about my comment. Don't have enough arguments to respond directly to my comment, u/AntiqueBother8134, so you've got to do it in a way it won't show up in my notifications? >Ignore people who say it’s a disability. So what? Let's pretend we're enjoying playing the fool because we like people laughing at our faces? Stuttering **is** a disability, it **is the only disability that is still treated as a joke**. People must be respected the way they are. >Ignore people who say we are born like this. Aren't we? [Stuttering **is genetic**](https://www.stutteringhelp.org/genetic-and-neurological-factors-stuttering). We are not born stuttering, but when we start it is because a traumatic event brought this gene to the fore. >And ignore people who say there is nothing we can do and we just have to accept it. Self-acceptance is very necessary when you have a disability that prevents you from positioning yourself in society as you could without it-- and by that I include people who stutter in the same "circle" as people who use wheelchairs, people who are deaf, and so on. By the way, I never said that. When I say we have to "deal" with it, it's mainly because I believe that everyone on this sub has to "deal" with stuttering as well. Everyone finds their own way of dealing with it, someone will recommend reading aloud, someone will recommend breathing more and being calmer, someone else will recommend going to a psychiatrist because stuttering can be related to anxiety-- and these are the ways that we **have to deal with it**. If you disagree with me, I don't know what's going through your head (not that I expect anything good after that comment in absolute bad faith towards a person who literally said he wanted to be born differently). >No one would choose to speak like it. So I guess it's a disability?