In your experience, what is the difference between when you stuttered as a child and as an adult?
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In your experience, what is the difference between when you stuttered as a child and as an adult? I would say that most of the 80% of children who outgrow their stuttering symptoms never actually developed a stuttering disorder in the first place. In other words, although they may have learned to anticipate stuttering, their stuttering or their anticipations of stuttering most likely never became a source of anxiety to them. Indeed, this is quite a well-documented finding – that most young children who stutter are completely unbothered by their stuttering – even though they may be aware of the fact that they stutter. It’s usually the parents or teachers who are bothered by it. In most children stuttering tends to disappear spontaneously as their speech and language production systems become more stable and finely tuned to their environments. From a neuroanataomical perspective, stuttering seems to reduce as the white-matter increases in the various brain tracts responsible for language and speech production, and they become less prone to making speech-errors.