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Breaking old habits / thought patterns / avoidance behaviours will take time. You took the first step on putting in the time and effort of working on your speech. Now it's emotional trauma / past memo...

Haven't tried any therapy but had a pretty rough childhood and i mostly get blocks whenever im anxious/nervous before speaking to someone new or before an interview etc, so i think it may be related t...

I came here to ask this. I went to two different speech therapists. And I didn't stutter at all during the assessment. And my second therapist told me that my case can be psychological, and I should ...

Thanks, while it was mortifying/infuriating out of body experience, I can laugh about it now. I teach at my local University, and I use this story as an example of abuse that still happens twords peop...

Oddly enough, I was beyond appalled/pissed at the time, but I laugh about it now and I use it as a lesson to my students about discrimination. It also a good drinking story....

My one friend a long time ago lived with an over religious grandma. One, she was being super mean to a group of us. I told her I stutter cause I had a demon trying to talk at the same time. She stoppe...

I had a preceptor during one of my hospital rotations perform a exorcism in my stutter. 0/10 I do not recommend....

I’ve been there… one extreme bad work moment had me stuttering so bad I locked myself in the apartment afterwards. What helped me was a therapist, she got me over this emotional life hurdle. After ano...

I second this. It seems that genetics can be likened to the soil in which stuttering may develop. Individuals predisposed to stuttering may possess a fertile ground where specific factors, such as tra...

Adult Onset Stutter

Adult Onset Stutter How’s it going guys? Was wondering if there are any new details on adult onset stuttering. I started to stutter at 28 after I had a nervous breakdown from alcoholism. It started ve...

For me I think it was yelling parents and emotional neglect, bad emotions got stuck inside throat and started stuttering. I stutter less in no stress situation or with talking to cats, dogs....

I had multiple stuttering family members and I am one, too. Difference is that they have recovered, I have not. The possibility is genetic, the question is that is there a trauma to activate it. Bu...

I agree with the guy in the video. I mean he’s a neuroscience doctor so who better to get info from. No one in my family stutters so i don’t think it’s genetic. I think it’s a learned behavior and the...

Did you know that from what I read there , it seems like you have a psychogenic learned stutter, it's the stutter that you can create and reduce by your own mind . I had that stutter the same as you b...

TW: School shooter word mentioned It lasted 4 years of my life from 7th grade to 10th grade. I would never even act strange, threatening or look up guns in class all the FUCK I did was do my work, l...

Mocked by teachers in front of a whole ass class of multiple kids, many times, mostly between the ages of 9 and 12. Heartbreaking stuff I’ll never forget. I’m sorry you went through that. Something I...

im about to yap. but im 14 with a stutter due to something traumatic so im usually to myself, especially since i just moved, and my first and only time smoking was with my hbs in my hometown and i was...

I wish my teachers did that. I couldn't use my words so I resorted to violence. That often didn't work out well for me....

I remember when I was asked to read aloud in front of the class, and I could see people hiding their laughs from the corner of my eye. It's traumatic to experience such things at a very young age....

18 years old!

18 years old! Hello, I started stuttering at the age of 7 when I burned myself while playing with fire. It began out of fear. As a child I almost didn’t stutter at all — for the first three days after...