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Why do I stutter even when I talk alone

Why do I stutter even when I talk alone I've read many reports saying that stuttering is caused by psychological reasons. Even when I talk to myself, I stutter. Is my stuttering caused by neurologica...

Genetics my man, my mother told me my father used to stutter as well and I too went to speech therapy when I was 5. This is like a never ending cycle, unless you decide to not have kids...

My father had a stutter, but he was mostly out of the picture. Its genetic in most cases. My siblings don't have it, only me. Most kids that stutter, grow out of it....

Imo, you are looking at it the wrong way. You can be a better father to your son by being a role-model to him and encourage him to accept his stuttering. There is a very good chance that you passed it...

Keyword "can". A friend of my stutters because she has epilepsy and she grew up in a loving, nurturing environment. I stutter because I inherited from both sides of my family....

Believe it or not, I still stutter sometimes when I'm alone. Based on your experience, what's causing that? Some kind of curse? I stutter because my mom stutters, my uncle stutters, my uncle (dad's br...

Exactly. You put my idea on more technical words but that is the point. Strong environmental factores contributes to stuttering. So we linked such factores to speech performance and we get trigger b...

I know how you feel. It's because we know how this puzzling malady has influenced our lives. We love our children and want to prevent their pain. Stuttering has many causes, physical and emotional. It...

Why us?

Why us? I always blamed my physically abusive father for my stutter… I had speech therapy for years and now I can speak fluently around 80% of the time. Now my son has reached 5 years old and he has ...

Great observation! In my opinion, research does indeed seem to indicate a strong environmental (or [epigenetic](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22epigenetic%22+%22stuttering%22)) factor that contribu...

You tell your friends you don’t appreciate it when they speak to you like that about your stuttering. If they don’t like it, then go it alone at school. Don’t get too heated, though it would be tempti...

But you're also right, there's no way knowing for sure. I'm also wondering since you mentioned it another reply, does your genetically predisposed stutter also comes with the good old crippling social...

Trauma absolutely changes our brains, it's just overly simplistic to assume that every person who stutters experienced trauma that was the cause of their stuttering...

I don't have a traumatic event associated with stuttering, but it does run in my family...

Hi there, I stutter and I'm a speech language pathologist. First, don't panic. When a young child starts to stutter, it can be a frightening experience for family members. The fact is about 75% of chi...

Nobody knows for sure but it seems that there are both genetic and environmental triggers involved. That's why I'm curious to learn other's stories. Speech is a very complex function so it doesn't nec...

Children stuttering is normal during the language development phase. Chances are you did too. No need to be alarmed keep providing positive encouragement and since no one in your family stutters the c...

It can definitely be genetic. Stuttering runs through my family on my dad's side...

Don't beat yourself up, there are scientific articles that have found a biological basis in the brain for stuttering. And I'm pretty sure that stuttering kept me a virgin till i met the right woman a...

Bud, vapes, Doritos and Mountain Dew is a uniquely Zoomer and American thing respectively, and stuttering predates high-fructose corn syrup, which is like invented in the 50s. The availability of swee...