I understand where PrinceofTruth is coming from (as you might tell from my own post). I don't like to make assumptions, but here goes (anyone correct me if I'm totally off). It might help in putting PrinceOfTruth's post in perspective. *Let's say* your stuttering is fairly manageable. In that case, to you, even though compared to others it's not that bad, it can seem like the worst thing in the world...because you have nothing to compare it to. Essentially, any discrepancy in your fluency would be something for you to 'complain' about. **You then have the privilege of being a part of this disadvantaged group on the one hand, while being able to look at 'positive things' that only exist because your case of stuttering is not worse than it is.** When you then go and make a post taking **stuttering** as a whole (speaking to everyone on the spectrum) and implying that we shouldn't focus on the negatives, it can seem ignorant to someone that has it worse than you. For instance, what might have got me and Prince was this sentence: *It's also a great talking point (no pun intended) when meeting new people.* What if it's not just a 'talking point'? To non-stutterers or minor-stutterers, stuttering might simply be a trivial, 'cute', 'talking point'. But what if you can barely talk? What if you can talk but only at the expense of your breath, comfort, and stable emotional state? No offense meant to you at all. Just trying to provide perspective. This might be a good example of how, even within the same disadvantaged group (stutterers) there may be some people who have certain privileges that they themselves are unaware of. I myself know that although stuttering has had an impact on my life, it could be worse.