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Hello I have a BA in speech pathology, am a stutterer, and am a doctoral candidate in psychology. Let me clear up a few things for you. Firstly, ADHD is ASSOCIATED with stuttering (50% of stutterers have ADHD), but it is not caused by it. They are both forms of neurodivergence but there is no causal link between them. Secondly, Stuttering is not caused by social anxiety. This is a common misconception. Social COGNITION (i.e., when you are thinking how other people are perceiving you, even on a subconscious level) is what interferes with the neural pathways of speech articulation. It is commonly misunderstood as related to anxiety because of course times when one would have social anxiety would be overlapping with situations that would trigger social cognition. In conclusion, you are right about one thing: doing mental health work (primarily around mindfulness/metacognition), you’ll be able to grow a better awareness of your thoughts and bodily experiences which then can help you both implement tools for social anxiety and stuttering. I’ve gone through periods of life when I have more blocks and it does get better friend. Speech therapy really helped. Keep at it and be kind to yourself. It is a long but worthwhile process