i’m 24, i remember first having one in 8th grade after 2 moves back to back. my dad’s in the military so we moved once for 6 months from CA to GA when i was in 4th grade, moved back to CA over christmas break of 4th grade. stayed in the same area in CA until the end of 6th grade. we get moved to GA, AGAIN, same county but lived in a different town so i was going to a different school. the summer after 7th grade my parents wanted to own a house (at this point we were renting), so we moved a couple towns over, and i went to a new school from 8th-11th grade. TO RECAP: i was in 3 different schools for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. 8th grade is when i first saw it. a therapist i saw in high school was the first person to say my stutter may be caused by the trauma/stress of moving. at the time it sounded like wishful thinking. like a conspiracy theory somehow. 10 years later i’m finally accepting that yes, i stutter because of the trauma of moving. and trying to work on it.