A Stuttering Experiment You Can Try at Home.

A Stuttering Experiment You Can Try at Home. I'm a guy who's been stuttering from the age of 5. I'm 25 now. It's gotten really bad over the past few years. Anyways I tried an experiment a few months back. I went online and started chatting with clever bot. That's an artificial intelligence robot that you can chat with online, and it'll respond to various things you say in a logical manner. I started chatting with this robot, and I put my smarphone beside me and started recording audio. I pretended like I was talking to a real person (using emotion and energy while speaking). When the robot replied to my messages, I would speak out my response as if I conversing with a live person. I would then quickly type out what I spoke and continue. This was like a conversation simulator. I barely stuttered during this experiment. It almost completely disappeared. I played back the recording, and I couldn't hear any struggling. I think there was one point where I felt a block coming along, but I was able to move past it with utmost ease. So this definitely told me something. It told me that I don't stutter when talking to robots....it's only with people. I don't know how to interpret this finding. I'm assuming my stutter is affected by social anxiety and time pressure. It might be neurological at its core. There's a lot of dispute whether stuttering is neurological or because of social anxiety. Some say it is neurological, but social anxiety aggravates it. Or maybe its different for different people. Nonetheless try this experiment at home. It might give you some insight about how your stutter works. And have fun with it. Try talking in a different accent or voice and see if it makes a difference. Also about the robot thing. I've heard some people say that they stutter when talking to Alexa and other voice activated robots like that. I do too. I think it might be because of the time pressure, those robots give you a short window of time to say your command and that could be causing you anxiety.