The fact that it's colloquially referred to as a "stutter" is such an unfortunate situation for a myriad

The fact that it's colloquially referred to as a "stutter" is such an unfortunate situation for a myriad "Stuttering" is simply something every person that can speak does. Even fluent people stutter in instances when they're nervous, haven't thought about to say, or are otherwise caught off-guard. This is why there's so much bad advice exists about stuttering online for people like us like "just take a deep breath" - because it predominantly comes from fluent folks, targetted at other fluent folks. Those of us in this reddit are talking about pathological stuttering, i.e. COFD. Someone with this condition, when we encounter a block, cannot just will themselves through it. We encounter a hard wall of sorts, the nature of which isn't well understood. We're really more "speech-jammers" than we are stutterers. Stuttering is merely the *symptom* that presents itself most obviously on the outside - but its internal cause in our case is something unique to us. Also, "stutter" doesn't even describe those of us who only experience blocks as opposed to outright stutters (e.g. th-th-th-this). The fact that "stutter" is what this condition is referred to colloquially is just utterly unhelpful. In regular language, saying "he/she has a stutter" does very little to actually impart any useful information about the disorder to a fluent speaker, which is part of why the general public's knowledge on this condition is so poor. Imagine if Tourette's syndrome was referring to as "having a twitch" or "being twitchy"! That's essentially the reality we live.