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People with Tourette’s disorder have the opposite problem to people with a Stuttering Disorder, inasmuch as people with a stuttering disorder worry about not being able to get their words out, whereas...

I've thought about this a bit. Stuttering is definitely a candidate for shorter-term improvements with Neuralink. But I think in future, it will make speaking entirely redundant. Even the most fluent...

Does anyone else who stutters experience tourettic OCD?

Does anyone else who stutters experience tourettic OCD? Hello. 31 f here. Have been a stutter most of my life. My disfluency was more noticeable when I was a kid. It sort of calmed down with the confi...

I agree, both theories would be very interesting to discuss in a podcost: * the first theory regarding our tongue, this [diagram](https://drive.google.com/file/d/13N4vqJxO21XRy_Z3I2wo0lIW2Q7_vPnI/vie...

I dont have any specific theories in mind, but a few vague ones i can remember learning about. Iirc ancient people thought it was something to do with the muscles of the tongue or throat, i think comp...

>Maybe a good discussion would be comparing older, and more common (perhaps disproved) theories about the origin of stuttering to more recent ones that are more unheard of. I'm very interested in ...

How it comes about is a fascinating topic to me. I've thought about what happens in my brain that causes me to stutter my entire life. Maybe a good discussion would be comparing older, and more common...

Non-stutterers focus more on facts (left-hemisphere) like words are just words, where PWS focus more on emotions (right-hemisphere) like feared words and situations. According to [this research](http...

Cell Phones might worsen stuttering symptoms.

Cell Phones might worsen stuttering symptoms. Hyperactivity of the dopaminergic system exacerbates or induces stuttering speech. I believe that using my cell phone likely significantly exastrobates th...

Most scientists who study stuttering have maintained that stuttering is a neurodevelopmental disorder, meaning that it is caused by misfiring or reduced activity in certain areas of the brain. It's fr...

Neurons are plastic during conscious attention, and not plastic during automated routines. 80% of kids outgrow stuttering. **Question**: Does that mean that the 80% of kids were 'conscious' and obse...

Repetition of words or phrases is an autistic trait, which has a lot of comorbidity with stuttering...

I think in a variety of ways: conceptually, visually, musically. Thinking in words is definitely not my most common way of thinking. A couple of years ago a post went viral where someone found out so...

I don't believe it's the same on everyone. I've had mine since I can remember.. It feels neurological to me. My thoughts just move too fast and I have to take a breathe a slow myself down to get the w...

I'm sad too. I did have some speech therapy in school when I was really young and I have tried so many techniques since than. Through research I came to understand that it is a neurological condition ...

How Brain Research Sheds Light on the Cause of Stuttering

How Brain Research Sheds Light on the Cause of Stuttering ...

Both links/people are SLPs who specialize in dysfluency AND are stutterers who taught themselves *and many clients* to gain control of their speech, and speak very smoothly and pleasantly. (Some tech...

Thank you for your response. This was explained very well; I learned something new and important to my stutter (valsalva maneuver). ​ Assuming that the links are on the subreddit, I will ...

Male stutterers VS female stutterers. Why do men stutter more than women? (Question to all redditors)

Male stutterers VS female stutterers. Why do men stutter more than women? (Question to all redditors) Stuttering is more common among males than females. In adults, the male-to-female ratio is about 4...

??? Do you have a stutter? It’s a neurological condition caused by an issue with the basal nuclei in the nerve that connects the speech motor parts of the brain....