You really seem to have this harmful victim blaming mindset. I can assure you a majority of people have been bullied, laughed at, discriminated, teased, mocked, infantilized, and harassed because of their stutter. “99% of people don’t care!” I can ASSURE you way more people DO care, and you genuinely seem like you’ve never been bullied before. You’re making it sound like all of this is completely our fault instead of putting the blame on the bad people who quite literally caused us to be this way. It’s scientifically proven that stutterers are 3x more vulnerable to mental illnesses like anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts than non-stutterers, and there definitely is a big reason to that. Even if you were, YOUR experience is not equivalent to everyone else’s. Not every shoe fits the same, and not every stuttering experience is the same. Instead of victim blaming the victims, we should focus our attention on the ableists bringing us down, because this mindset is literally just a gateway for bullying to continue on. A large majority of stutters don’t even REALIZE or CARE about their stutters until OTHER PEOPLE start trying to cure them, then bully them, then isolate them, and the list goes on. You should really do some more research, cause remember stuttering is quite literally one of the most misunderstood disorders out there, and harmful stuff like this just sets us back even more. You’re acting like ignoring is the best and easier thing in the world, but remember that people are literally fired from jobs for their stutter. They are held back on promotions, opportunities, because of OTHER people. And the lathe majority of stutterers have been bullied since they were CHILDREN. A continuous cycle of being bullied and mocked for basically your entire childhood will absolutely destroy your mind. A stutterers quite literally prevents you from doing a lot of things, it’s listed as a disability for a reason. The average person will be awfully by confused by a person repeating the first part of their name, or randomly taking long pauses, and if you have a moderate-severe one, you automatically get labeled as mentally impaired. Coming from my experience and literally THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THIS SUBREDDIT, LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE CRUEL! THERE IS A REASON WHY STUTTERING IS SO MISINFORMED EVEN TO THIS DAY! People were killed back in the day because they were thought to be wizards and witches. They had their tongues cut, pebbles shoved in their throats, hit by their parents to make them stop stuttering, drunk from snail cones, isolated. Even today there are people that actually think stuttering is a spiritual curse. I dare you to go tell this to another person with a different disability like a wheelchair user or someone with autism. I can assure you this victim blaming mindset is not getting us anywhere as a community, and you can’t ignore how horribly stigmatized stuttering is.