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commentr/StutterMar 29, 2025
1 points

Listen mate, if you take a public speaking course, let me know which one and I’ll do it too. Little update, today my stutter has been on 1000. The only sentence I could get out was “I’m stuttering” an...

Causes & VariabilitySchool & Work
Stress & Fight/FlightPublic Speaking
postr/StutterMar 29, 2025
16 points

[MEGA-COLLECTION] Personal views on what CAUSES stuttering (this includes genetics/bioneurology, triggers etc)

[MEGA-COLLECTION] Personal views on what CAUSES stuttering (this includes genetics/bioneurology, triggers etc) **Stutter theories**: *(personal views on what causes stuttering)* * [Theory #1 ](https:...

Causes & Variability
Genetic & Family FactorsNeurological & BrainTrauma & Psychological+3 more
commentr/StutterMar 29, 2025
3 points

Blood's rushing from the brain to another part of the body lol. But seriously, there's a LOT happening during sex, physically AND mentally. Even people without a strammer will struggle to get words ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & Variability
Overthinking & MonitoringStress & Fight/Flight
commentr/StutterMar 29, 2025
1 points

Hi! im sorry this happened to you. I’m actually just like you. I used to stutter every now and then from kid-adulthood where i will just struggle repeating sounds or syllables until i can say it. actu...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Feared Words & NamesAvoidance & SubstitutionOverthinking & Monitoring+3 more
commentr/StutterMar 28, 2025
1 points

Reading aloud isn’t really useful for blocks based on stress. In fact, as you are both experiencing, it is more likely to make things worse . Would you be interested in practicing something that is ...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & Variability
Anticipating StutteringAvoidance & SubstitutionStress & Fight/Flight
commentr/StutterMar 28, 2025
2 points

Hey friend. Are you me? Stress, anxiety and high levels of cortisol can make it hard to think clearly. I graduated in the top 10% of my high school class and I was being absolutely crushed in Univers...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityCoping & Advocacy
Overthinking & MonitoringStress & Fight/FlightEnergy & Biological Rhythms+2 more
commentr/StutterMar 28, 2025
13 points

That was me at 18. Stuttering isn’t caused by nervousness or anxiety. It does exacerbate it, but it isn’t the cause. As for everything else, reach out to someone, an online stuttering group, a spe...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceSchool & Work
Stress & Fight/FlightAnxiety & Social JudgmentSeverity & Fluctuation+3 more
commentr/StutterMar 26, 2025
1 points

worse, I believe its because I barely talk to anyone and even at school I just avoid speaking to ppl but even if they do I either ignore them or avoid trigger words. it's crazy to think ppl just see m...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCommunity & SupportCauses & Variability
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentAdvice Requests+1 more
commentr/StutterMar 25, 2025
1 points

thanks bro. it’s weird. i’m a native spanish and english speaker. learned fluent italian when i was young. but the language i mostly speak is english and that’s the one i least stutter, barely even. ...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional ExperienceSchool & Work
Stress & Fight/FlightPropositionality & WeightAnxiety & Social Judgment+1 more
commentr/StutterMar 25, 2025
2 points

When I was in my early twenties, I took a 2-week workshop in Italy that changed my life. Basically the teacher asked us whether we used stuttering to avoid things that scared us. I realized immediatel...

Anticipation & AvoidanceCauses & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Avoidance & SubstitutionHiding & ConcealmentStress & Fight/Flight+3 more
commentr/StutterMar 25, 2025
8 points

I stuttered disruptively in my teens and my twenties. It was extremely traumatic for me as I know it is for everyone who stutters. I’ve worked very hard to put myself in situations where I had to lear...

Causes & VariabilityCoping & AdvocacyEmotional Experience
Stress & Fight/FlightMindfulness & BreathingVoluntary Stuttering & Exposure+3 more
commentr/StutterMar 25, 2025
2 points

Mine has slowed a bit but so has my anxiety. I wonder if they are connected deeper than I thought....

Causes & Variability
Stress & Fight/FlightEnergy & Biological Rhythms
commentr/StutterMar 25, 2025
1 points

In my case it got worse since I became an orphan, probably due to stress of losing both my parents....

Causes & Variability
Stress & Fight/FlightTrauma & PsychologicalSeverity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterMar 25, 2025
3 points

Younger it was really bad but I got got it under control but it has been getting worse since Covid...

Causes & Variability
Stress & Fight/FlightSeverity & Fluctuation
commentr/StutterMar 24, 2025
1 points

Thanks for your reply. I agree we cannot take emotions out of the equation. But think about times when you have stuttered and there hasn't been much emotion or social pressure involved. That's the ba...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Neurological & BrainStress & Fight/FlightTrauma & Psychological+1 more
commentr/StutterMar 24, 2025
1 points

I feel like it barely even affect me personally until covid hit and after covid (covid hit when i was in 8th grade), it was going from being at school and being social then being locked away for awhil...

Causes & VariabilityEmotional Experience
Stress & Fight/FlightSeverity & FluctuationAnxiety & Social Judgment
commentr/StutterMar 24, 2025
4 points

Better. What's funny these past 2 years I've had a career switch which has caused me the most mental anxiety of my life and through it... totally forgot about my stutter. Literally. It rarely occured ...

Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability
Stress & Fight/FlightSeverity & FluctuationAuthenticity vs. Masking
commentr/StutterMar 24, 2025
1 points

So if there is no one on the other end you would stutter?  If you have a somewhat consistent stutter here and there since you said it doesn't relate to high stress situations, it may be easier to test...

Speech & StutteringAnticipation & AvoidanceCauses & Variability
Blocks & StoppagesFeared Words & NamesStress & Fight/Flight+1 more
commentr/StutterMar 24, 2025
1 points

I think there are general characteristics that are true for most people. I would be very hesitant to say “all people” for anything really. There’s always exceptions for the rule and humans are so comp...

Causes & Variability
Severity & FluctuationStress & Fight/Flight
commentr/StutterMar 24, 2025
6 points

Stuttering?  Better because with age, I kinda realized.. “No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.” — Alan Watts...

Coping & AdvocacyCauses & Variability
Mindset shiftStress & Fight/Flight