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I don’t understand this shit I’ve never posted here just sometimes scroll through the main page but I thought I’d post something. Im 15 and have a pretty mild to moderate stutter but I’ve dealt with it for about what feels like half my life even though I’ve not had it that long. when I was about 8 or 9 I noticed that I had developed some sort of stutter/stammer and so had my parents so I did a speech program through my elementary school and after like 4 months of doing lessons I had overcame the stutter. only occasionally having minor mess up’s with speech but I think that’s pretty normal even for non stutterers. so anyway I went through the rest of elementary school and my first year of middle school 95% stutter free. well in 7th grade things changed and I noticed it came back. Although I didn’t really think too much of it until it continued into my 8th grade year and it started to bother and stress me out. well then I tried to do speech therapy outside of school and that didn’t help at all and to make things even worse for some reason I never stuttered in front of the speech person even when I tried to. but then I’d go to school the next day and stutter just casually asking my teacher a question. I finished 8th grade and entered high school and I’d say that my speech became even worse. I remember days during my first few weeks of 9th grade where I would have so many blocks to the point that all I could get out was “yes” “no” and “oh”. But then as I progressed into the year I realized that by the days it was getting better and better. and here we are now where basically all I’m asking is to just get a better understanding of if I will ever outgrow this or overcome it hopefully in these next few years. I’d say overall I’m 60% fluent and the only really type of stuttering I deal with is blocks and the occasional repetition of words or sounds. another thing that I find that is interesting is the way my mouth moves when I talk it’s almost like it stays still and I’ve wondered if that’s why I stutter. Other days I think it’s just a brain issue or something since no one else on both sides of my family stutter at all. about every relative I’ve ever met has been a fluent speaker. so I guess I just wanna find out why the fuck I have this stutter, what I can do to try and fix it, and if I will ever outgrow it. Sorry for the long ass post but if anyone read the whole thing I appreciate it.