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Adult onset stuttering, and autism How’s it going everyone? Gonna try to get right into it. About 4 years ago I started to stutter. This was at 28, and I had zero history of stuttering up until then. I’ve been trying to get answers as to where this came from ever since. From what I’ve gathered, and the medical help I’ve received my case appears to be in the psychogenic ball park. At the time I had no physical events I could connect with the onset. I posted on here before about this, but this came at the tail end of a spout of alcoholism I was battling at the time. For years I thought this was the root cause, but I haven’t found any evidence of the two being connected (unless you’re a heavy drinker for many decades) With all that being said I’m wondering if there’s any connection between developing a stutter, and autism. I have not been formally diagnosed I need to add, but from looking into autism the last year I am pretty confident I’m somewhere on the spectrum. Was diagnosed ADD as a child. I’ve always suffered from “anxiety”, but recently I’ve become convinced that it runs deeper than that. Around the time my stutter started I can definitely say was the worst period of my life, and my anxiety/distress was the highest it’d ever been. I’ve looked into something called autistic burnout, and am curious if I could’ve suffered from this without knowing. When I struggle to speak the most is always when I’m at my most anxious, or “drained”. I work as a bartender too, and constantly feel drained, and pressured to continue to socialize beyond what would naturally be comfortable to me The stuttering does go away sometimes, or for periods of time. I’ve been able to speak with no blocks multiple times over the years, but def can say it gets more severe the more drained I’m feeling. Any info, or thoughts on this would be appreciated