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commentr/StutterJan 25, 2025
3 points

LOL, you are so young to be making such proclamations. Life will have twists and turns for you. I am a 72 yr old woman who stutters, 2 marriages to men who didn't, my daughters don't stutter but oddly...

Causes & VariabilitySocial & Relationships
Genetic & Family FactorsSeverity & FluctuationFamily Support & Conflict
commentr/StutterJan 25, 2025
10 points

Two kids and neither one stutters. Oftentimes upbringing and environment play into things so just because you stutter doesn’t mean necessarily that your kids will stutter. No need to make any concre...

Causes & VariabilitySocial & Relationships
Genetic & Family FactorsFamily Support & Conflict
commentr/StutterJan 25, 2025
34 points

It's not necessarily hereditary. My dad stutters. But he had 5 children and only I stutter. I have a daughter. She has no stutter...

Causes & Variability
Genetic & Family Factors
commentr/stutteringJan 24, 2025
1 points

When your stutter got better or worse, were there any changes in your life - meds, environment, stress, etc? I've stuttered all my life, but nowadays I rarely stutter. 9 months ago, I posted here ab...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & Variability
Anticipating StutteringAvoidance & SubstitutionGenetic & Family Factors+3 more
postr/StutterJan 23, 2025
2 points

Question

Question I know this might be a weird question but I can’t help but ask. So I have stuttered my whole life, same as my dad, but my dad doesn’t stutter as much as I do, in fact he almost doesn’t stutte...

Causes & Variability
Genetic & Family Factors
commentr/StutterJan 23, 2025
3 points

I assume this is the guy who dropped a ton of shrooms (didn't click the link). I hate when I stutter and people tell me to do shrooms to fix it. 15g of shrooms is a trip nobody in their right mind wan...

Causes & VariabilityMeds & Substances
Genetic & Family FactorsPsychedelics & Microdosing
commentr/StutterJan 23, 2025
8 points

He hasn't stopped stuttering. It's always there. He says at the end if he drinks and there's a lot going on he stutters. During this segment you can hear him on the verge of stuttering several ...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceMeds & Substances
Genetic & Family FactorsStress & Fight/FlightHope & Motivation+2 more
commentr/StutterJan 23, 2025
1 points

Try reading out loud, or singing songs that you know. A technique i still use from elementary school is to tap out my syllables...

Coping & AdvocacyCauses & Variability
Fluency TechniquesGenetic & Family Factors
commentr/StutterJan 23, 2025
1 points

Breathing exercises, reading from a dictionary aloud, reading a few pages of a book daily, weightlifting sessions at the gym. I stuck to this for 2 years and I don't consider my stutter a problem any...

Coping & AdvocacyCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Mindfulness & BreathingGenetic & Family FactorsHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterJan 22, 2025
1 points

"what do you think caused the disruption in the first place?" You're asking a million dollar question. By doing so, you are conceding that impaired cerebral blood flow may be causative of stuttering. ...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Neurological & BrainGenetic & Family FactorsAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterJan 22, 2025
1 points

I’m sorry to hear that my friend, I hope you recover from it mentally in some way. As and Ls are such a pain for me, everytime saying“Alex” “Netflix” is a gamble for me My goal for 2025 is to read m...

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Feared Words & NamesGenetic & Family FactorsAdvice Requests
commentr/StutterJan 21, 2025
1 points

What I am saying is that the biological / genetic causes for stuttering fall under one roof and allow us to be more objective about stuttering. There are some impressive studies on genetics of stutter...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Genetic & Family FactorsNeurological & BrainHope & Motivation
commentr/StutterJan 21, 2025
1 points

>*"An example is the SCN2A gene that is strongly associated with epilepsy. It encodes sodium ion channels and mutations in this gene can lead to hyperexcitability. So this is why epilepsy is typically...

Causes & Variability
Neurological & BrainGenetic & Family Factors
commentr/StutterJan 21, 2025
2 points

Agreed! The genetic and neurological factors will never be the same as in non-stutterers - if we consider stuttering remission in adults who stutter. See for examples these research studies: \- How...

Causes & Variability
Genetic & Family FactorsNeurological & BrainPropositionality & Weight
commentr/StutterJan 20, 2025
2 points

You've acknowledged that the psychosocial aspect is secondary to the neurological and genetic factors but want to focus on the psychosocial aspects. However, the genetic factors account for at minimum...

Causes & Variability
Genetic & Family FactorsNeurological & Brain
commentr/StutterJan 20, 2025
2 points

My parents were absent when I was a tot and I was raised by my grandparents, I don’t think I had a permanent stuttering in kindergarten, it only got worse when my parents became present in my life aro...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & DisabilitySchool & Work
Trauma & PsychologicalGenetic & Family FactorsIdentity & Self-Perception+1 more
commentr/StutterJan 20, 2025
2 points

My head did get bumped a bunch of times when I was a kid, either because my parents were clumsy or myself being naughty, it might mess some things up in there. My parents also claimed it’s because of ...

Causes & Variability
Trauma & PsychologicalNeurological & BrainGenetic & Family Factors
commentr/StutterJan 20, 2025
1 points

That’s very interesting. What does your father teach maybe I ask? Do you know what the other two students’ father teach?...

Causes & Variability
Genetic & Family Factors
commentr/StutterJan 20, 2025
3 points

When I studied in school I was a stutterer ,my father was a college professor that time and surprisingly other 2 students who stuttered were also sons of college professors. We 3 are only stutterers i...

Causes & VariabilitySchool & Work
Genetic & Family FactorsTrauma & PsychologicalSchool & Academic Life
commentr/StutterJan 19, 2025
1 points

yes I have with a charcoal briquettes and sleeping pills, but failed. I try to overcome my stutter everyday and I'm improving. some of my family members overcame their stutter, so I know I will too...

Emotional ExperienceCauses & Variability
Hope & MotivationGenetic & Family FactorsSeverity & Fluctuation