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Stuttering more as I get older I'm 28 years old, and for some reason I've found myself stuttering a lot more when talking to people than I used to. What's funny is that stuttering has never been a problem for me in my childhood, teenage years, or early 20s. Is it possible to develop a stutter this late in life? I noticed I started stuttering more in the past year or two... Whenever I would have phone interviews and I was talking about more difficult terminology, I would occasionally stutter, and sometimes it would last several seconds on one or two syllables. Now that I'm in IT, I think it also affected my speech. Certain terms that I'm not necessarily used to, because my previous career was in marketing, are more difficult to convey to my friends or co-workers. Sometimes even when I have an occasional conversation with a friend or my brother over the phone, I find myself constantly stuttering every 10 or 20 seconds on an occasion syllable, and I'll even switch to different words if they're less difficult for me to say than other words. I could eventually see a speech pathologist about this, although it's not harming my professional life as much as my personal life... It is interesting to note that it happens more to me over the phone than in regular communication. My first language is Russian, and it's interesting to note that I almost never stutter in Russian, only in English.