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

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 There is a person who stutters, he has a BA in speech pathology, and is a doctoral candidate in psychology. In his personal viewpoint he states: "*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."* **Interventions**: *(that he recommends)* * doing mental health work (primarily around mindfulness/metacognition). *Result*: 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