Ah ok. I guess everyone's stutter is different :) Personally my stutter became worse when I paid more attention to it and made it the center of my life. I mentioned that in my post. Before I was 17, I never really thought about it much. I knew it existed but I didn't care about it. I didn't center my personality around it, I just viewed it as a slight bug in my speech pattern. But after 17, I started to look at myself as the '' Stuttering guy '', and ever since my self image became that....the stutter grew more powerful.