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Dealing with people who mock you Hey! First time posting. So, I (24F) have been a stutterer my whole life, the degree of stutter kind of fluctuates depending on particularly stressful periods and so on. I used to be quite self-conscious about it but I’ve learned to own it and even sometimes speak in front of a public since my usual thought process is “I have stuff to say so you WILL listen whether I stutter or not”. That being said, there are people I meet for the first time who kind of make fun of my stutter, either menacingly or out of ignorance and it really bugs me so I usually straight up tell them “Yeah this is how I talk, I have a speech impediment and I can’t really control it, something funny about that?” and watch them get really uncomfortable lol. When I was younger I used to cry when people made fun of me (obviously) and I really hated myself for letting them get to me so one day I was like, that’s enough. Anyway, how do you deal when people are being rude?