[TinyBig]

I am also surprised because it feels like stuttering must be less common than the article suggests, or they're using a looser definition than what I think of. I stutter and didn't encounter another person who stutters until I was almost 40, which seems statistically almost impossible if 1% of the population has a stutter.

The author of this piece also seems to have some self-limiting beliefs. Stuttering doesn't need to mean living in fear or a constant state of longing. I hope they've made some progress on this front over the past 12 years.