Boys may be given the message to “use more effort to get through the bumpy speech”, which basically just leads to blocks, fear and avoidances. I think it’s important to let young children know it’s normal/ok to have fear, and then show them ways to handle it. People judge boys differently than girls, which leads to them negatively evaluating their speaking ability because of listener's judgements. Boys have the genetic predisposition: 'If one does a sensitive activity, he very actively listens to his surroundings'. So, if a boy views his behavior of doing speech errors as sensitive, then he will actively listen and pay attention to his stuttering resulting in viewing 'stuttering as a problem' (creating strong emotions) and needing to be avoided (creating anticipatory fear) Stuttering is more common among males than females. In adults, the male-to-female ratio is about 4 to 1; in children, it is closer to 2 to 1 according to research. Girls who begin stuttering have a greater chance than boys to experience natural recovery without treatment. Traits of boys are: **Analytic** traits could lead to trying to analytically stop stuttering leading to overthinking resulting in perceiving speech errors as a problem. **Dominance** could lead to dominantly controlling their anticipatory anxiety (instead of letting go). **Active and aggressive** traits could lead to actively trying to control by tensing speech muscles to push out the stutter (instead of not paying attention to stuttering). Traits of girls are: **Confidence** and **passively being** could lead to not overthinking, as well as **not taking the risk** to control it. Because women biologically aim for **safety**. **Submission** could lead to letting go of control.