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Advice on fluidity when upset I (F18) had a stutter for almost all of my lower school years, we were all unsure as to why, butlimited speech therapy for a while and it mostly went away. I went to a very underfunded school though and my "speech therapist" was just a teacher with minimal training. She did help in the fact it was some one-on-one time that I could practice talking about things I liked but, essentially she told me to be quiet when I stutter badly and wait to talk until I don't anymore. It really wasn't the best way to help and made me feel like crap, but the shame from that and the actual work I did eventually led to my stutter being almost completely gone. Fast forward to now, and it's rare I stutter at all. However whenever I'm upset or scared (diagnosed PTSD, so that's frequently now) it comes back in full force. And it makes whatever is upsetting me even worse. I have no one to talk to about this, no one I know stutters or ever has, and because it's more infrequent now I don't get any support. Does anyone have any advice on how to help with this, or learn to accept it. Alternatively if anyone has any idea why it happens that'd help a lot, I'm just trying to understand myself.