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Nobody in my family stutters, i dont understand why i do…...

Genetics plays a big part as well. In my case, both my father and one of my older sisters stutter....

almost every human has a phase (~3 years) where he or she stutters. i think there is the point were the speechcenter develops. through genetical, psychological, etc circumstances around 1% of people k...

My mom stutters so here I am stuttering too 🤷‍♀️...

Why do we stutter?

Why do we stutter? What are all of the theories?...

I have have stuttered all my life, I have two grown up sons, thankfully they have never stuttered.. I so glad they, unlike me, have not been held back in life through the curse of a stammer .....

I stutter sometimes when I'm alone and "practicing" conversations (yeah, I got to the point I would practice what I'd say in different case scenarios for a smoother conversation) But in my case, I th...

Never really thought about it like that. I just assumed that it was something random that happened when I was born....

Treatments are not necessary to have something with genetic edits cuz our brains were already formed and shaped, therefore, genetic editings can't change our brain structures and functions anymore IMO...

I like your optimism and maybe when the scientists can identify all the genes related with stuttering we can edit them out I am really hopeful that we will have effective treatments by the end of the...

Perhaps there is. One of my known PWS was even a stuttering baby who couldn't cry out aloud bc he inherited his grandpa's stuttering genes(although I dunno if that's true really when it comes to wheth...

Been stuttering my ever since I could talk. Fluent speech has never been something I could look back on. My dad didn't start stuttering until he was 14. He's now in his 60's and it's mostly gone, but ...

Yeah genetic treatments are just too unrealistic out of question cuz we cannot edit and alter our genes as we want. I'm more glad to hear that the reason why stutter appears so difficult to be worked ...

I’m a life long stutterer. Earlier this year my son began stuttering and whenever he did I would stop him, teach him to take a breath and speak slowly. When I see he’s still stuttering I would simply ...

I’m also the only one with it in my family, not sure why. I’m older than you, and I remember my parents trying hard at the time to get me fixed, but all the therapies I went through didn’t really help...

I’m pretty sure I (F) got my stutter from my dad...

Worst case senario: they have a stutter. So what? Sure, it's an inconvienience, and there's nothing worse than people trying to guess what you're saying, but all in all if they do get it, it's not tha...

I had two kids, only one inherited my stutter. Both me and my daughter are mild stutterers, she is doing well, in high school now. The main different is that you stutter also and you know what they wi...

My grandfather had 5 children and my father inherited it and then i have a brother but only i inherited it. I also fear that my children would inherit it but no one knows what happens. Just focus on t...

May I ask if you were able to outgrow it and if you've ever openly talked about it with your dad? My parents never liked to talk about it, and that's probably why I never really stood a chance to outg...