As a former stutterer, these answers give me a renewed sense of appreciation for my apparent powers. It’s been almost 20 years since I stopped blocking… after all that time, it’s surprisingly easy to lose touch with the daily horrors of stuttering. There is an initial rush, thrill, and huge appreciation of fluent speech once you have it. But, after a few years, it slowly becomes the new normal, and you kinda forget what an incredible gift it is to be able to just talk.