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I’m the only person within a large extended family to stutter across known previous and current generations. Definitely not a learned behavior because I would not have had anyone to learn it from....

Nope. Only person in my family who stutters. I was born 2 weeks premature though....

When I was 10-11 years old, I had a classmate who would try to imitate my stutter. And he eventually developed it. Then we moved to different schools. Years later, I found him on social media. I asked...

My parents didn't stutter and I do so I didn't learn it from them. The reason this is such an unpopular opinion in this sub is that this line of thinking is used as a rationale to isolate adolescent s...

Stuttering is hereditary, but not severity, as far I remember from reading basically all the major studies a couple years back....

No. All other PWS in my family have a mild stutter while mine is severe....

Is the severity of a stutter (also) mostly genetic?

Is the severity of a stutter (also) mostly genetic? Having a stutter is (mostly) genetic. It runs in my family (on both sides, yep…). But is the severity (mild, moderate, severe) also genetic? Unfortu...

in my case it isn't genetic. It's not recognised at least when we go for university admissions cuz it has no recognition. I mean it is what it is and we gotta deal with it ourselves......

What? It's generally agreed upon to be neurological and it's definitely genetic. You do still have to figure it out, though; you can absolutely learn a level of fluency despite the neurological quirk....

Not genetic. No one in my family stutters except me....

Well, my dad has a stutter (albeit mild), and my parents have been married for 59 years, so they're doing something right....

And i live in india here we dont move out and stay in same house :) and our parents earn then we earn for them and this cycle continues...

Stutter is not always a part of you, in many cases it's acquired and not something you were born with...

Look into Avoidance Reduction Therapy for Stuttering (ARTS), Action Committmemt Therapy, The C.A.R.E program. Basically, any speech therapy that uses a holistic communication approach to stuttering. A...

The only thing consistent about stuttering is it's inconsistency. Literally, one of the hallmarks of stuttering is variability. Nothing is wrong with you. It comes with the territory of having a st...

It is definitely cause by genetics for most people but environment and internal thought processes can change how genes are expressed (it is called epigenetics I think). Current genetic research shows ...

My stutter is hereditary. It’s caused me social anxiety, and the social anxiety makes the stutter worse....

Not really but every persons journey is different. I stutter, have done all my life, and I am not socially anxious nor is mine genetic. I have always felt that mine was to do with how I breathe but ...

I do, yes. I always will have blocks but they're getting better each day. I only block when I think about blocking, but it's not like I block for 5-10 seconds, maybe a second. If fear controls me, th...

My stutter is genetic, and it contributed to my social anxiety...