Hey there. Middle-aged woman with stutter checking in. I've stuttered since I was around 5 or 6. Who knows why, there are a lot of factors as we know, but at least one in my case was my strict, scary grandmother correcting my speech in a very aggressive way, which made me very self-conscious and nervous about speaking. Then my parents decided 'she'll grow out of it' and didn't send me to speech therapy. By the time I got up the nerve to ask for it myself (17 or so), it was too ingrained to help much. Anyway, I'm mostly covert, probably a lot of people don't even realize I stutter, but sometimes it's a lot more noticeable. Sometimes the reasons are predictable (too much coffee, low blood sugar, tired); sometimes it comes out of nowhere. I'm so used to it now that it doesn't really bother me very much, plus I think it's gotten milder over the years, but when I was younger it was agonizing. I didn't do a lot of things that I would have liked to, or said a lot of things I'd have liked to have said. Now, I doubt I'd change it if I could. Nice to meet you!