The ability to foster stuttering pride comes down to one very simple question: do we gain anything from stuttering? Instead of saying that stuttering is OK, can we bring ourselves to say that stuttering is good or advantageous? What experiences do we have access to that fluent people do not? What would we lose by ceasing to stutter? No doubt, this is a hard project.
All our lives society has taught us that stuttering is worse than fluency. Stuttering is defined as a disordered form of fluent speech, speech that fails to achieve some predetermined percentage of fluent syllables. However, this is a false dichotomy. Yes, fluency is more common. Yes, stuttering can be hard. Blocking is tough. Getting stuck is frustrating. Nevertheless, stuttering is so much more that our disfluencies. Professionals and the general public talk about our speech as lacking fluency; instead, we should talk about our speech as gaining stutters. Until we have a reason to stutter, until we are able to say that we choose to stutter freely and openly because it benefits us, our speech will always be defined as the negative opposite of fluency.