I believe that when a child first begins to stutter, it is a different type of stuttering than adult stuttering. I believe a child may stutter due to being sensitive to their own emotions. Not sure, but what I do know is that adult stuttering is more of a learned behavior, or coping mechanism. When a child stutters, there is very little to no self consciousness about their stutter, and thus little muscle tension due to effort to hide the stutter. In other words, childhood stuttering is natural, while adult stuttering behaviors are learned. So when you say you were born stuttering, in a sense yes, in a sense no. You weren’t born being self conscious about stuttering. It’s a learned way of thinking. So our negative feelings we have taught ourselves about our stuttering is what’s making the experience negative. So those negative feelings have to be unlearned, because they were learned in the first place. Do you understand what I mean? And our ego is what made us afraid of other peoples’ reaction to our stuttering, which caused us to want to hide it, which then made it progress deeper than it ever had to.