I can understand this concern, but in a way it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. If you believe that a stutterer can't command respect, then that filters through into your body language and all of the unspoken signals you send to other people, and people will respond to you as someone who can't command respect. In a lot of ways, (for me) this is stuttering in a nutshell. As I reflect on my stutter (which has gotten worse over the past couple years), I'm realizing that at least half of my problem is the way I think about talking to other people. When I put myself in situations where I'm convinced that my stutter is going to hinder me, my stutter is magically several orders of magnitude worse. I'm not saying that one should be able to "imagine" their stutter away. I don't think it's that simple, but I'm realizing that the mental game we play with ourselves is at least as important (if not more) than the mechanical games we go through to form words and attempt fluency. My "task" for the indefinite future is to better understand this mental game, and how I can play it more positively.