Last night I sat in on a speech therapist's zoom talk and he said some interesting things.

Last night I sat in on a speech therapist's zoom talk and he said some interesting things. It was in Japanese, so unfortunately it was in Japanese, so I don't have any slides or anything to share. Some of the interesting things he brought up from that I thought I might share are, (these all ring true for me. I get that we aren't all the same). \- the "fixes" we use might be counterproductive. Those "fixes" we use are akin to cutting off the tip of the iceburg. What happens when we cut off that tip? It floats back up again. \- many of those who have a stutter and even those who have it due to genetics are sufferers of PTSD or other kinds of stress disorders. In regard to the "fixes", I don't know about anyone else, but I have definitely thought that my stutter was almost fixed for it to rear its ugly head again. I've posted here before that I've noticed I stutter a whole lot more than I do when I hear my voice recorded (even if I'm not aware I was recorded). The reason he thinks this happens is the underlying cause of the disorder, for some PTSD needs to be address before the fixes will ever work in a more permanent way. I definitely have trauma from my childhood that is yet to be addressed. The teasing because of the stutter, my step-father making fun of it and getting angry at me when I'd come home from speech therapy stuttering like a broken record despite achieving some sort of fluency at the speech therapists, like it's going to work on a seven year old with it already ingrained? And other traumatic experiences, some I can't bring myself to write down. I wonder if this is a common experience. How many of us actually have PTSD without knowing it or even we do know we have it have yet to or will never get it addressed?