24F, from the UK and stuttered my whole life, I’ve only met one other woman with a stutter. I started talking at 4 months old (something my speech therapist would later suspect was one of the causes of my stutter). My mum said she first noticed me stuttering at around 1 years old, I didn’t get any help until I was 7 years old. My mum spent years trying to tell doctors, nurses and teachers that she thinks I have a stutter but no one believed her (even being told once that girls don’t stutter). She even tried to self-refer me to speech therapy which is something she wasn’t allowed to do. It was only when my sister was born and we had to go to a follow-up appointment that the nurse noticed my stutter (only because she said her own child stutters). This was the only healthcare professional who took my mum seriously and referred me to speech therapy. Now I have a mild-medium stutter and also I developed a lot of techniques to ‘hide’ it but it shouldn’t have taken 7 years to get help. There is still a lot of mis-information around woman and girls with stutters and we are often overlooked.