I think it can work the other way, though. Honestly, how people react to how my husband talks can make them lose “friendship points” with me. I don’t mean if people have a brief, weird reaction the first time they hear him, like giggling or asking a dumb question. But once they know he stutters, if they keep giggling or interrupting him or making weird faces or whatever, that reflects badly on them. How people react when they are talking to someone they know stutters shows a lot about who they are. When I was in college I had a few friends who really prided themselves on being so open-minded and accepting and empathetic, but when I started dating my husband, they never made any attempt to make him feel comfortable or include him in group conversations. That said a lot to me about what they were actually like, and we didn’t have a big falling out but I just started spending more time with people who were better listeners and more patient and less judgmental, and they ended up being much better friends anyway. So maybe think of it less as a landmine than a filter. How people react to stuttering is a quick way to weed out jerks and self-absorbed people, and to see who is worth becoming friends with.