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Stutter is a neuromuscular disorder that can lead to abnormal speech fluency and can cause stloads of failures of interviews and relationships, in addition to normal communications of daily life. Why ...

Rare psychiatrists are specialized in stutter cuz stutter is not a psychiatric disorder so you were barking on the wrong tree. Plus, there are also only a few speech therapists specialized in stutter...

How much do therapists and psychiatrists know about stutter?

How much do therapists and psychiatrists know about stutter? Hi everyone! I was thinking about a therapist I used to see a few months ago. She wasn't necessarily a bad therapist, I just feel like she ...

It's more akin to something like Tourette Syndrome. Has neurological origins but not likely to be classified as a conventional psychiatric condition by the relevant field of experts....

I am not mean to you and pour a backet of cold water onto you but you gotta get ready for being a PWS for a lifetime cuz everything seems not that smooth, for not many researchers are into stuttering ...

Actually I saw there was once a webinar where one SLP was discussing about neurological diversity so that he illustrated that stutter is caused by neurological diversity instead of neurological 'disor...

Ok, so you have a stutter. It's a thing most other people don't have. They have an advantage with presentations. But that doesn't mean that you have to be ashamed and try to be something that you are ...

And in speech school we are told to keep looking at people while they stutter because otherwise it makes it worse for them because they think we are losing interest due to the stutter! ​ ...

Correct me if I'm wrong; Stuttering can be CAUSED by a mental illness (such as anxiety) but I don't see it AS a mental illness....

Define mental illness... (rhetorical question) This is a slippery slope. IMO, stuttering is not mental illness. But I've observed a lot of mental illness in stutterers. Suicidal thoughts, depressio...

Wow you seem very knowledgable in stuttering so I guess you may be an SLP or neurologist? May I ask what is 'smooth speech technique"? The technique that I need to prolongate my pronouncing instead of...

I'd say it can contribute to mental illness, but is not a mental illness in itself. I think it's more of a psychosomatic disorder....

I don't know what the consensus is in the medical community (if there is one), but it seems strange to call stuttering a mental illness because it doesn't affect the way I think (not directly anyway)....

Nothing, it's just semantics for people who prefer arguing about "stuttering is incurable" instead of actually doing something more constructive. Personally, if I don't have any unnatural speech-relat...

I would not say it’s a disease but a different activation in areas of the brain being over activated than others. Along the lines of neurodivergent brains...

Philosophy; Stuttering; Social Anxiety

Philosophy; Stuttering; Social Anxiety It is a western ideal to be the hero of your story - you could think of this as people who do exposure therapy to the things they are terrified of to become stro...

Stuttering is One Of the Most Complex Disorder/Psychological Ever IMHO

Stuttering is One Of the Most Complex Disorder/Psychological Ever IMHO ...

You can ask speech pathologists to accept stutter as a diversity thing. But society at large won't see it that way and stutterers will still suffer and be discriminated against. Stutter is and always ...

I don't think there would ever be a concensus on this with stuttering, even though a lot of people might feel it applies to them. Accepting stuttering as neurodiversity basically means, "fully embrac...

I don't consider it that way. Every human being has some flaws and I don't feel we need to categorize and put them into buckets....