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It was my teacher. I had written a few answers for the questions he had given us, my handwriting is bad so he asked me to read. I was quite the fast reader at that time so I went through the answers w...
Not sure what triggered me . It looks like childhood trauma *My mom used to beat me up until my skin turns green if I give wrong answers to her questions when we were studying for exams.* No one in m...
Just natural, nobody else in my family stutters. We’ve thought it could be linked to a bad childhood concussion I had, but seems unlikely....
My Fathers side, have a history of mental health issues. Mostly Anxiety and depression, I also had a great uncle who stammered but he died before I ever met him. Basically I am convinced stammering is...
I suffered from a stutter from the time I started learning how to speak. I started speech therapy in preschool and cycled through various speech therapists as I moved around. I went to psychotherapy f...
Hard to say. Stuttering can be neurogenic, psychogenic, developmental or some combination of all of them (as far as we know). For now it's just something we might be able to alleviate but not fully cu...
I hesitated to tell me story, but here goes.
I hesitated to tell me story, but here goes. I'm new to the group with a few recent posts. I have debated telling my story because I was concerned about coming across as self-righteous or preachy. For...
Can psychologists or psychitrists treat stuttering as a a phobia?
Can psychologists or psychitrists treat stuttering as a a phobia? [deleted]...
Does anyone else feel that their stutter ruined their dating life?
Does anyone else feel that their stutter ruined their dating life? I feel like my stutter took away many relationship opportunities. I’m 25 and still haven’t been in a relationship. For a long time I...
I had mild speech problems as a child that mostly cleared up. Now in my 30s, I developed a stutter about a week after a positive covid test. I'm considered a "long hauler" so I've had a bunch of lousy...
That is another example that stuttering is, at some degree, psychosomatic. It goes away and may return in another occasion. In my job I don't have to talk a lot, so I can keep things stable at some po...
I was bullied a lot up until high school. My dad was Marine and he saw the schools weren’t doing anything to stop it. He ended up taking me to the gym and had me wrestling and taking boxing classes wi...
I believe I have the same problem.I went through a lot in my early teenage years that I feel it worsened my stutter.I struggle with finding or using more intelligent words during conversations or argu...
Sounds like his stutter may have been brought on by the stress of West Point, which would be a psychogenic, rather than neurogenic stutter. So, if Allen's stutter was psychogenic, it makes sense that ...
How do you feel?
How do you feel? I feel as if I don’t belong anywhere. I’m not meant for anyone or any thing. That being stated. I know many of you were able to overcome this and have productive lives with support ...
I thought about that some time ago, and I advise you against it, sure you can learn it for fun or to meet and help people from the deaf and mute community, but at the back of your head you ran away du...
Adult onset stuttering
Adult onset stuttering Hey guys, I've started stuttering basically out of the blue a year ago at 22 years of age... I don't really know the cause of it, It could be drugs, medications I take (Valium ...
That's really kind of you! I appreciate it. I think many young people like me were/are influenced by TV and movies obviously. When I was like 13-14 maybe, the Adam Sandler movie Billy Madison came out...
Prior to making the film, I \*believed\* I had not met anyone who had a disfluency. But the reality is I was so unaware and unconnected to the challenges of living with a disfluency that I'm certain I...
I can't seem to implement the techniques and strategies I've learned in therapy
I can't seem to implement the techniques and strategies I've learned in therapy So my stuttering has been there pretty much all my life. It's a side effect of my cerebral palsy, but the neurologist ne...