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Great reply as always! I’ll admit I’m not super familiar with how medications or electrical devices are used to treat epilepsy. Could you help me understand how modern treatments address epilepsy thro...

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...

Science doesn’t know for sure the cause but for most it starts when speech is developing at a tot. Your parents yelling at you is a reflection of them not knowing how to handle an already-present cond...

Literally just Autism. Speech impediments are common with us. It's not anxiety or whatever, it just acts up whenever it wants 💀...

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 ...

No there is a solution the solution imo is to let go and have that mild stutter, as long as you can carry a conversation or get your point across pretty easily with mild stutters then you're good. For...

My psychotherapist believes it’s emotionally related to not being allowed to verbally express my wants and needs. There wasn’t any other overt family violence but I was ‘discouraged’ from expressing m...

What's the solution, then, based on your thesis that it is entirely neurological? I'm personally anti-pharma but I'm pro-supplement if its a natural vitamin or remedy....

Honestly, stuttering is a neurological problem in the brain, and anxiety more often than not goes with it. The perfectionistic or overly strict upbringing theory promoted by Wendell Johnson decades a...

Everything is physical.   There is no separate mental realm. It all originates from the brain.    One person can have your upbringing and not stutter.  Another one does.   Your brain is different.  So...

Womens brain are wired differently. Thats why they might be less prone to stuttering....

This actually makes a huge amount of sense. I had an idea that it would be evolutionary, somewhere down the line....

Women are just the more socially and verbally gifted of the two genders due some neurological differences between the male and female brain. This research paper talks about how the female brain gives ...

Here's how I've come to rationalize it. It's slightly different than some of the other responses here, and I cannot with confidence tell you that those other responses are wrong, but perhaps my ration...

I’m also on the spectrum, and developed a stutter later in life. Have, or were you under a lot of stress when the stutter started? Also should include I’m a cis male with no experience taking testoste...

I found this from another contributor re:Dopamine REDDITS Amazing on Dopamine and its role in stuttering Let me know if this is being recently in Chat Im clueless 😩Sue We hear a lot about dopami...

Zexcla, as prominent in chat. Here’s that scientific treatise from Little_Acanthaceae 87. I so hope we’re really in chat. At the age of 78 you realize that I wasn’t born with that technology chip....

ADHD Meds and stuttering

ADHD Meds and stuttering I am about to get prescribed adhd meds this month. I have a stuttering block problem caused neurologically. Will meds make it worse or better?...

Thought about it and there's some truth to this. The only time I have success in pressure situations (i.e. work) is when I do a variety of exercise and then carefully and consciously coordinate the...

Sure! Certainly not all but many People Who Stutter (PWS) obtain greater fluency by slowing down (or other techniques) their speech rate. Simple right? Not so simple for many. Because of the hardwirin...