Yes, I believe this was 100% my case. It all stemmed from me giving a public presentation in school, in front of 300 people, and I blocked on my name. So after that moment, my brain made a hardwired neural connection and associated fear and panic with speaking to people, which obviously is a terrible and neural connection to have. So basically, I knew no one in my family stuttered but me. So I was convinced there wasn’t anything genetically wrong with me. It turns out that my brain associated speaking with the “flight or fight” response and it locked up my throat and made my heart race like crazy. **So I did EMDR therapy to lessen the effects of that anxiety. • Erased that destructive connection and replace it with a new one. •Slept good to solidify the neural connections and positive feedback after EMDR therapy. •Took a breath before starting each sentence (everyone does this! No one notices it but everyone does. Even politicians do this a lot, but no one bats an eye). • And I stopped taking to myself at home to try and get some ‘fluent’ moments, I remained quiet completely. So in a nutshell: **my body associated speaking with danger, hence why my body would lock up and I would stutter. I un-wired that connection and the emotions aren’t there anymore. I’m 100% fluent now. I’m one of the rare cases that managed to beat it.**