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Changing character of stutter I (23) have been stuttering since middle-school. At first it was a "normal" kind of stuttering, where I knew what I wanted to say, but had this huge block, a total paralysis of my tongue, like I've totally forgot how to speak. Now, after years of adjustments, exposure, and talking to some wonderful people on this sub (we used to do group practice from "straight talk on stuttering") I'm mostly fluent. Unfortunately, my fluency in big part comes from timing my speaking, changing the words I use. Sometimes I feel it makes me sound incompetent, like I have to search for words for too long, can't use the right words to say what I really mean. I'm starting to feel like stuttering completely changed the way I think. I feel like I lost my wit I once had, like I have beat stuttering just to be dull. It surely could also be depression, but I just feel like it is connected with my speech impediment. Has anyone had this shift from an audible stutter to a cognitive one? How did you manage it?