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My 2 cents. I'm 49, began Stuttering at age 5 due to traumatic dog attack. After 20 years of speech therapy, I went from 0% fluency to about 90%. Before, I hated when people would finish my sent...

When I was 4 or 5 I can remember a very abusive teacher that used to call children up to the front of class and hit them across the hands with a wooden ruler. I actually peed myself one time when she ...

I had seen multiple therapists (psychologist, speech therapist,...,) all try to linked that to my childhood and my parents divorce. I think it was the easy thing to do, because it was a really dark pe...

Research says onset during early childhood it is genetic and portions of your left side of the brain are used less when people who stutter speak...instead we use the right side of our brain. While th...

I started stuttering once I realized that I was gay, so I'm guessing that was it. This was back in fourth grade and I was confused and just hated myself at the time, which caused me to become insecure...

What caused your stuttering?

What caused your stuttering? I've been stuttering for as long as I can remember. I've had a speech therapist since I was 6 until I was 13 because I could actually speak without stuttering or blocki...

Not really. Growing up my parents have been pretty harsh and can sometimes get pretty verbal and sometimes a little physical but if anything that has gone down a lot in the last couple years. And even...

The same thing happened to me when I turned 18, I had never stuttered before that either. I also get blocks at the beginning of sentences so I understand your frustration. Have you had any trauma or a...

That is brutal...crazy how these situations that happened so long ago stay with us for years. People don’t understand how traumatic this stuff is....

I can personally really relate. I only have a couple friends I've really ever talked to in person about mine, and it's weird. If they bring it up (ask how my speech therapy is going, etc) I start to f...

Good luck during the application process! where are you thinking of applying to? I started the essay with a first person account of what it feels like to go through an episode of stuttering (at least...

My father was also emotionali abusive he always made fun of me (even infront of my friends and adults) I stutter since I was 2 years old now I am 16 and things are the same my stutter never got worse ...

My mom too got angry with me when I was 8 years old. I remember a teacher sent me to the school psychologist and there she made me read some stuff. She gave me a note and told me that it was for my mo...

I struggle with memory a ton. Everyone’s like “when I was a kid I did this and that” I honestly hardly remember my childhood. I hardly remember things from a couple weeks ago...

Holy fuck is that why my memory is so bad? Things make a lot more sense I can’t remember dates people tell me for shit because if I’m in a social situation I’m always in fight or flight mode....

This is not something that necessarily comes with having a stutter. If you literally can't form memories, you really should go see a doctor/specialist of some sort. It might be an indirect result of s...

Yes! I struggled in university because of this too.. I was under so much stress worrying about presentations and speaking in class that it really took a hit to my ability to retain information. Most o...

I don’t remember most of high school. I am confident that I blocked out most of it. I didn’t realize other people who stutter experienced the same thing....

Do this everyday to release years of stuttering trauma, it will change your life https://youtu.be/x2DB_ABQMFg...

Why is it about the dog attack that makes people stutter? I've heard a lot of these types of events leading to a stutter...