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Why is stuttering so mocked? No but seriously, it’s so mocked most people makes it a normal thing. Shown in so many TV shows, and in fact how it’s usually portrayed. Like they are dumb, nervous, or as a comedic affect and the comedic affect effects the worst because since people are laughing at it on the show, then they laugh about it in real life. Like I am so mocked and teased about it. One time I even got called a Stuttering Monkey. And one time in third grade(I was in special ed classes) this boy was having a meltdown and during it, he pointed at me and said that I was dumb and stupid and I stutter too much and then speak weird. Eight year old me cried for the rest of the day. Then the common “I can’t understand her”, the “speak normal”. Like this boy in my history class would do it CONSTANTLY and always tried to get others involved too like one time I was talking and he was like “Ha look how she’s talking!” While mocking me and pointing at me, making more people laugh at me too. Then the shocked faces when I have a bad stutter. People literally kill themselves because of this. I can barely find any good representation of stuttering, the onlys one I can find is Bill from It, The Kings Speech and Jimmy from South Park, and I don’t even watch that show. And a misconception of stutterers is that we are dumb and stupid which is not true. I’m so sick of it. People get declined jobs because of it, we get made fun of, mocked, bullied, treated like we’re not humans sometimes. And the “stuttering representation” is always a girl stuttering in anime’s of Wattpad stories to make them seem “cute” or “shy”. Izuku in MHA, usually the fanfics, without giving him a medical reason to, just to make him seem “cute” and “quirky”. And the people who fake it often gives us an even worse rep. A big one is the Wonderland System, how she faked her stutter for Oliver and Aj. Glad people pointed it out, but there are all these trends of the stutter and how classmates usually go “O-o-o-Oliver” when I stutter. Then people don’t wanna talk to you because we take too long. I’m pretty sure even president biden pointed this out too, of how stuttering is still a disability that is normal to mock or something like that, I don’t really remember. Then other people of power mocking him causally too, for example, Lara Trump. Like she said: “Every time he comes onstage or turn to him, I’m like, Joe can you get it out? Let’s get the words out, Joe. You kind of feel bad for him.” Then she says that Joe Biden has a cognitive decline? I think it’s only me but she’s basically saying that all stutterers have a cognitive decline. And she also says: “It’s is concerning to a lot of people that this could be the leader of the free world”. Does she not hear herself? She’s basically saying that stutterers cannot be leaders. I’m pretty sure that’s ableist too. Is stuttering mockery so common and allowed that people with a lot of power can mock it? Donald Trump did it too. He says: “Bring the country to-to-to-together”. He’s mocking his stutter, literally a presidential candidate is mocking Joe Biden stutter, a full grown man. And the worse part is all the people in the crowd just causally laughing, all full grown men and women laughing. That’s actually sad and disappointing. And the causal ableism too. “Did they stutter?” “I didn’t stutter did I?” That’s casual ableism. A lot of people don’t see stuttering as a disability they see it as something to laugh at. It is also portrayed as unheroic and villainous in moves too. Jimmy from South Park and Bill from it are the only movies I know off that shows them being confident with themselves, barely anyone mocks them, they are patient with him and they show off heroic acts and are treated like a human. The Kings’s Speech is also a very good movie is good because it shows King George the Third to be confident with himself. While movies like Billy Madison just casually mocks stuttering like with that “T-t-today Junior” line. Still didn’t hear an apology. People and movies like those add on to the mockery and discrimination and teasing and bullying people with a stutter face daily. It’s disappointing and I’m sad about it. And thank you for anyone who read the entire rant and thing.