>**Speech therapy was a waste of time** as stuttering would sorta just come and go as it pleased. Have you considered trying again? Therapy differs depending on therapist/client relation (and therapist/client current state), after all. Maybe there's something that works for you to be found still. >(Not sure how common some of these things are). Basically all the things you mention are common. :) Have a look at e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttering#Characteristics - I'm sure everyone here has experienced all of it, more or less. Stuttering isn't completely understood yet, so some questions won't have conclusive answers. But there are a lot of things that are common to us, where we can share our experience, just so we know we aren't alone with it. :)