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My guess on how my stutter developed As a young, bright, energetic kid, we had thoughts that we were so excited to share that our mouths could not not keep up with our brains and we had no desire to take our time or sounding eloquent which resulted in jumbled disfluent speech - stuttering. At this point, our stutters were not related to anticipation or fear, instead simply from talking too quickly. The more often we’d stutter and see people’s reaction to our stutter, a fear of specific words and syllables came to be; a general speech hesitancy developed. Over time, this hesitancy developed into such a prominent obstacle in our minds that we couldn’t *not* worry about words, so powerful that most of us believe that we have something physically wrong with our speaking mechanisms, but in reality, it’s just a psychological block that can be removed by replacing our stuttering experiences and traumas with the opposite - fluent speaking memories. Of course not all stutters are the same in their presentation and their causes. If your stutter arose due to a traumatic brain injury, this post probably doesn’t apply to you, but this is how I believe mine developed. Anyone else think anything similar?