I think that’s one of the mysteries of stuttering; is childhood stuttering the same as adult stuttering? And to what extent is the raw mindstate of stuttering tied in with emotional experiences? For me I started stuttering around 20 years old, am 26 now. I do believe that stuttering to an extent is something that happens Independent of emotional states, as I do stutter alone sometimes when I feel pretty neutral emotions. My theory for children is that they are sensitive to the world because they are new to it. They look at faces and the world and their emotional response to it kinda triggers some muscular spasms in their speech production. This later turns into self-consciousness because the child’s parents and/or society reacts negatively to it. And the child inherits a cultural expectation of how much time a person is allowed to speak a particular word a sentence. This then leads to secondary behaviors such as tensing speech muscles, avoiding words, etc. Then my original question comes back into play; is childhood stuttering the same as adult stuttering? In the sense that secondary behaviors are learned, and childhood stuttering isn’t. Does this make sense? Do you believe at some point there became a separation between your stuttering as a child, and your stuttering you experience now?