aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

You know ever, since I started working with two stutterers, I’ve grown a lot less tolerable of the “Biden is on a mental decline because he’s stuttering” crowd.

“He’s putting in weird pauses” that’s a stutter" “He’s switching words” that’s also the stutter" “He’s doing a bunch of filler words” that’s a stutter too “he’s declining” I could literally look up a video of him in 2013 of him doing all this. He’s doing it more thanks to his age, yes, but that’s not inherently a sign of cognitive decline.

Hollywood has really screwed over people who stutter by giving them this blatantly false representation of them as stupid or scared or just plain not showing how it w-w-w-w-works (yes, that’s a form of stutter, but it’s not the only form a stutter can take). A stutter is not a sign of weakness or stupidity and even if you don’t give a shit about Biden you should realize how that’s rebounding onto every person that stutters.