1. Just stuttered for as long as I can remember, no apparent cause or any possible correlations that I can think of, I just have it. 2. I often stutter with the start of words particularly W, D and B. I will also get stuck and repeat entire words very fast until I can get past it and say the next word, kind of like a record that’s gotten jammed and is repeating the same snippet. 3. Usually for me noisy environments and big group settings when everyone is talking over each other. I find it makes it hard for me to block out everything that’s going on so I can concentrate on what I want to say (I also have adhd so that might just be my mind focusing too much on noises around me and side tracking my concentration and energy away from my efforts to speak as fluently as I can) 4. I can forget that I’m technically different from my friends and family in that regard cos I’ve had it all my life that I’m just use to it and it’s only when a situation comes up that causes me struggle or even just a reason for pause that I remember that oh yea this isn’t a typical thing other people tend to experience. Like my friends probably don’t get tested for a stroke whenever they go to A&E… I’m a uni student who has had a few trips to A&E cos I’m an accident prone idiot 😂 but yea it’s happened on 3 separate occasions that a nurse or doctor hear my speech and get alarmed and want me to perform the physical test for a stroke :/ But hey gotta see the silver lining in it, the first time it happened I didn’t clue on straight away that that’s what they were testing me for but once I did I quickly explained that oh no I’m fine I normally speak like this. Admittedly the other couple of times well… the A&E wait room usually takes several hours but if after the first check in they’re alarmed they quickly bump you up to be seen to quicker… so yea the other couple of times this happened I was a little slower to clear up the whole speech thing until after I was already being seen to 🤷‍♀️ Hey it’s your vision and I’m sure you’ve already got it planned out but I beg please don’t do the whole character facing their fears or whatever and overcoming their stutter trope, the few times I’ve seen stutters represented in media it’s always been painted as some kind of hurdle the character must overcome. All and all I’m not particularly a fan of that narrative, it really paints it as something that has to be overcome for the character to have any kind of character development or a happy ending instead of the stutter just being a part of who they are and it not being some kind of fatal flaw