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What I’ve read very early on was that there is a lack of blood flow in a part of the brain - the Broca’s area (very similar to trauma victims) - that is different than normal people. On top of that, t...

Thanks for answering! I understand that people have good intentions, so my frustration is rarely directed at the people saying they stutter. I think it is more of a frustration with the situation. I w...

I just had someone very close to me who I’ve reconnected with, be very surprised at how severe my stutter had become. His attempt at consoling during a talk we had was to say that he also stutters. ...

I wouldn't even say _managing_ is the goal. What's the difference between managing and controlling? Feels like splitting hairs. I'd argue the goal is to have no negative impact from stuttering. To tr...

Just because a disorder originates in the brain doesn’t make it a mental illness. Confusing or combining the two makes it difficult for people with either to live and get treatment. Especially when bo...

It’s not a mental illness. It can cause mental illness’ like it has for me and I’m sure so many who stutter! In my case anxiety and depression; due to living with a stigmatised speech impediment. Ho...

A physical disability that happens to be connected to the brain, but I don’t that counts as a mental “illness”. Is that a formal term with a specific meaning anyway?...

Should stuttering be classified as a mental illness?

Should stuttering be classified as a mental illness? [removed] [View Poll](https://www.reddit.com/poll/ljyfwh)...

Hey, thanks for reaching out and asking this question. I know stuttering can be intimidating to work with. Most programs don't teach you how to help kids who stutter or teach it poorly. My experience...

Well, we need to be careful with the conceptualization for this sort of thing. For one, the science isn't done yet at all, so there's really nothing solid to work with. But apart from that, the models...

I'd want to eliminate it. If anything, stuttering prevents me (or makes it really difficult) from saying what I want to say. I know because I'm bilingual and I talk a lot more in the language I stutte...

Just a vent about the two things I hate most about having a stutter

Just a vent about the two things I hate most about having a stutter 1) I hate that I sometimes don’t order what I want to eat, especially at the drive thru. If someone’s in the car and I’m ordering fo...

It's saying more and more than there are both anatomical (structural) and functional (the way it's used or operates) differences in the brains of both children and adults who stutter. I think this res...

u/NotSoRobot >What does research say about brains of people who stutter? Do we have any kind of advantage at all or do we only have a disadvantage haha 🙃...

Here's one of the questions asked before the live AMA: >u/TallDarkness: > >"What's science current opinion about neuroplasticity regarding stuttering right now? Can it be a (partial) pos...

SLP here and you are right. Current therapy practices are a bandaid. It honestly is a life long commitment and you probably won’t ever find one strategy that gets you through life. Some of it can be a...

Hi OP, speech therapist here. First of all it was completely wrong for your job to let you go due to your stuttering & if you’re absolutely certain that’s what happened you could make a fuss about...

I don’t think a severe stuttering condition is necessarily wrong, but I don’t ever see it used within the field (again, speaking to clinical language and not what actual people who stutter preferred t...

NOT a person who stutters but I work in the field of speech pathology so can offer some insight since your audience will also be people who work in the field.. clinically we refer to it as “a severe s...

From my opinion if you think he doesn't deserve the job because of his stutter that's too bad. I'm almost a 100% he chose the field he is in and wants to go full time because he thinks he can do it. A...