I was the second stutterer in my family, after my cousin who is six months older than me. She grew out of it in her teens. I didn’t, but thankfully it hasn’t bothered me too much. My brother also started to stutter at the age of five. We changed his school, and his stutter went away. He is completely fine today, ten years later. The same thing happened with another cousin of mine. It might be genetic, but as far as I know, no one before us had it. I wasn’t treated as a child because the therapist said I would grow out of it on my own since it was very mild at that time. It remained mild until I started to overthink years later, which made it worse. I still stutter today, but I’ve found ways and tricks so that it doesn’t affect me anymore. It may have a genetic link, but I believe the environment a child grows up in matters more. I live in Pakistan, and the school I attended had a very strict and unforgiving environment. If, like my brother, my environment had been changed in time, I might not have been a stutterer either. But it’s okay, I have plenty of other things to be thankful for.