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My mother was and still is a fucking narcissist who made fun of me growing up. (Yeah, imagine getting taunted by your mother for not being able to speak fluently). Fast forward, I am in my 30s, found ...

Personally, I think it's important to draw a distinction between two stages: \---(1) Stuttering onset: Genetics likely played a strong role in why we began stuttering in childhood. \---(2) Stutterin...

I’m 32 years old and I have had a stutter for as long as I can remember. I’m pretty sure mine came up from childhood trauma and it’s been a rollercoaster ever since. Some months/years my stutter is ma...

I am not an expert but I will say that stuttering to the best of our knowledge has a biological component. Also lots of people start stuttering around 3. I really doubt anything you did beyond being h...

Hello, as a stutterer, suffering from it, to exchange my relatively one-sided view of stuttering, I think stuttering has a genetic relationship, Genes cause different physical structures in the brain,...

In my case i stutter severe when im alone but i stutter waaaay less when i have people around me. Its like my brain feels the presence of other people and my brain shifts into a diffrent state. I beli...

Thank you for sharing, a very interesting take. Apart from the pain of stuttering, I always felt a deep disconnect from myself, I even remember the moment when I lost this connection, and since then m...

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**TL;DR short summary:** The tips are for *people who stutter*, especially for those whose stuttering was preceded by trauma and whose social anxiety came after stuttering began. Unprocessed memories...

Tips to improve stuttering from the book "The body keeps the score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma" by Van der Kolk (neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and researcher)

Tips to improve stuttering from the book "The body keeps the score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma" by Van der Kolk (neuroscientist, psychiatrist, and researcher) This is my attempt to...

Relapsing Stutter

Relapsing Stutter I have struggled with mental health and stuttering my whole life. My mental health got worse in my teenage and young adult years (which I am). I am currently receiving medication an...

Maybe the trauma of falling caused that. Kids falling may seem like nothing to adults but for them it can feel like life or death. I remembered falling and hitting my head as a kid and it freaked me o...

Kids fall and hit their heads all the time so I wouldn't assume the fall unlocked something, however I do think there could be some connection from TBIs to stuttering. Maybe not TBI specifically but s...

Is this actually a stutter?

Is this actually a stutter? For a while now, maybe a year, I've been stuttering randomly. Not very often but at least once a day. My stutters aren't on multiple words. In the middle of a conversation ...

That is a smooth way to come out about your stuttering in my opinion...

Awesome reply! You said: *"Social COGNITION (i.e., when you are thinking how other people are perceiving you, even on a subconscious level) is what interferes with the neural pathways of speech articu...

NEW [research ](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Study+the+causes+of+stuttering+in+children+and+their+future+effects&btnG=)(2025): "*Study the causes of stuttering in children a...

There’s a huge psychological component to it, and it’s not likely your stutter got so much worse for physical reasons. When you find a way to change your mindset and get yourself in a comfortable, hap...

Maybe a solution?

Maybe a solution? I’m a person who thinks really deep about everything and what I’ve noticed is we live in patterns we live by routines. Everyone knows that there’s phases in life where you listen to ...

I think that he's saying that the speech therapist we have all went to, hardly every mentioned that it's more of a phycological problem. They have only focused on the physical aspect of stuttering....