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Do you know why you stutter? My dad has a stutter, so I suspect I may have developed one no matter what, but I also think a big part of the reason is severe anxiety as a little kid. Before I was 4, I had no stutter at all. I spoke very eloquently and easily, I was chatty, charismatic and apparently highly intelligent. At 4, my dad's drinking turned into alcoholism which gave me HUGE anxiety. At the same time I had just started kindergarten and withdrew into myself as I didn't realise how many kids were not very nice. I was more comfortable around adults who were more mature and kind. Somewhere around age 4-5, one night I was reading a simple book with my mum and I knew the word "clown" but I outright refused to say it simply because I knew I wouldn't be able to get the word out without stuttering, and it embarrassed. Around that age, I had developed a stutter that only came once a year for about a month. I was always relieved when it went away and I could speak normally and freely again. Around age 7, it came again and never left. Ugh. From then on, I was very self-conscious and shy, and also started talking REALLY fast as an attempt to hide the stutter and skip over the difficult words. That definitely did NOT work and instead, pretty much no one could understand me. I stuttered, cluttered AND was a rapid talker. I had speech therapy briefly about age 8, but found the woman stern and intimidating. All she said was that I didn't swallow properly. So I stopped speaking to most people unless I absolutely had to. Then eventually, by my late teens, I had lost the ability to even think of anything TO say, as I was too occupied with HOW I was going to say it. Now, I'm 45 and my stutter is 70% improved. Not by any form of therapy, but simply from taking Klonopin everyday. I know that is really not ideal, but it works and I can actually TALK now. So since Klonopin is an anti-anxiety med, it confirms that the majority of my stutter is caused by anxiety / nervous tension.