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Is this considered stuttering? Hello, first time posting, mostly because I never considered that I might have a stutter until recently. I always thought of stuttering as the sort that gets depicted as being somewhat involuntary. The repeated vowels/consonants, can't get through a word type. I am very fluent in my thinking and writing (preferred mode of communication) but probably because I don't talk to anyone that much, I didn't notice. Is this stuttering?: Because I find it difficult to think and talk out loud at the same time, I sometimes find myself starting and restarting sentences (which makes me flustered and want to stop talking altogether), or sometimes I completely blank on what the word I'm trying to say is, so I find myself just rapidly repeating the last one or two words I've said on loop until the I can think of the next word or I just give up. I do this a lot when I'm talking to my sister and parents but not so much when I'm talking to other people (maybe because I don't talk out loud to other people that much). Is that considered a stutter or is it just like, being an ineloquent speaker or something? I always just thought I was a bad talker but I realised that repetition of whole words is considered a stutter in the other language I speak (Mandarin), since most words are comprised of only 1-2 characters anyway. It made me wonder if this is considered a stutter in English as well.