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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,...

Once after a night of drinking I was sleeping it off in the passenger seat of my car "being responsible" a cop opened my door and fired questions at me, I just couldn't talk. Needless to say he jerked...

Stuttering and the daily dread that follows

Stuttering and the daily dread that follows Hi all, just wanted to use this space to vent a little. I've had a stutter for as long as can recall. I'm in my mid twenties now and I feel it has gotten wo...

First off, thank you for your compassion towards your new student who stutters. I also have a severe stutter, though all of my schooling most times I would dread being called on to answer a question,...

Yeah cause if was caused by socixal anxiety, then a LOT more people would be stuttering by now....

It's about to be 6 months for me since i graduated and I also do not have a job, I have not even been called up for any interview despite applying for more than 30 at this point. I also have a stutter...

About 9 years ago, I got a job that required doing presentations and hosting in-person/virtual meetings. I’ll be honest, it was pretty rough at first. I would be physically ill in the days leading up ...

Can I ask you a question? How severe was your stutter? I have always had a mild/mild stutter and somehow managed to talk my way out of it and use certain avoidance techniques. Since 2020 (lockdown), ...

Yes I developed a very noticeable stutter during the lockdown in 2020 which has only recently eased but gets worse at time of stress. I contacted my GP in 2020 as I thought it might have been due to ...

[Jackson](https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/news/what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-stuttering-interview-dr-eric-s-jackson) (PhD): "*Stuttering is researched more than any other speech impairment. But we know ...

Don't blame yourself. Stammering affects the thinking process and behavior too, has caused me to become very stressed and anxious at all times...

I have the opposite. I use meditation to reduce my stutter. I'm pretty sure my stutter is psychogenic though which may be different to you and it's definitely tied to my anxiety which is helped with m...

I say go to a therapist and request Xanax bur use it under supervision and very carefully. While on the Xanax have your therapy sessions where you discuss the emotional agony behind the stuttering. I ...

The anticipation fear of speech blocks is brutal, and stressful asf...

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...

My dad saying " take a deep breath and relax" when I was trying to speak in public or to people in front of him was the lowlight of my childhood. Stressed me out more than the actual stutter....

Hello I have a BA in speech pathology, am a stutterer, and am a doctoral candidate in psychology. Let me clear up a few things for you. Firstly, ADHD is ASSOCIATED with stuttering (50% of stutterers...

**Summary**: *(of various stutter research)* Conditioned and unconditioned responses are involuntary, reflexive reactions to stimuli. There are two basic procedures for modifying classically conditio...

Congratulations I beat it, too, in my mid-twenties. I had figured it out. My confidence, breathing, forming the word(s) in my mind before attempting to say them. Everything was in sync and the planet...

It's an interesting connection, but as with all these gut-studies, I feel that there is clear correlation without causation. Stress leads to stuttering and stuttering leads to stress. Both can result ...