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Childhood Trauma and Stuttering Do you believe there's a connection? I grew up in an alcoholic home where rage was normal most weekends. I knew fear from a young age, didn't understand it till I went through my own alcoholism and got sober in my mid 40s. My stutter has gone now but what a miserable life it brought. Fear of relationships, fear of career paths, fear of everything. A slow succession of shit jobs until alcoholism and isolation almost killed me, isolation is the alcoholics best friend and worst enemy. Also had asthma and used inhalers, pumping up metabolic system. Increased heart rate, nerves, anxiety... an all round shit show - lucky to be alive. I don't know why I was the only person in my family to stutter, I don't know why it went away in my 40s, I don't know why I let it bury me in fear for so long. I just want to live my life as best I can.