I understand and I agree with you. As for films, I don't like how the main (or only) representation of stuttering seems to be the person overcoming their stutter and speaking fluently by the end - or it's just a socially accepted 'cute quirk', as you say, and so it's harmless and it's all good. It would be very interesting, and far more profound I think at this point in human history, to explore a character learning to live with a stutter that remains throughout their life, not focused on 'overcoming' anxiety. The film could also depict the emotional trauma it can create in a person to live with a disability so invisibilised and disabling in social interactions. It doesn't always have to be about them healing or being fixed and 'getting better' either. Just showing this experience. There's a kind of recent wave in modern film with showing 'female rage' in a more unhinged way in female characters (I read up on this the other day and found it interesting). Female characters get to express rage which can be attributed to their oppressed position within a patriarchal/male-dominant society we live in. Some films don't even offer a positive arc for the character, where she heals after processing her rage; but even in these cases, it's enough for other women watching to see some of their own rage depicted on-screen, visibilised. Sorry for the slight tangent there, I just find it *really* fascinating how on-screen representation can de-invisibilise things like this! And I wish neurological stuttering, which we're talking about, would have this sort of 'unhinged' representation in the media too. A lot of other disabilities as well! Representation matters 💯