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For all of those who stutter.. do you ever feel as if you know that you can stop stuttering? This probably won't apply to those who stutter because of a neurological problem, but I believe that most of us suffer because of psychological issues. Sometimes, when I'm just sitting in my room on reddit reading posts from /r/stutter I think WOW, I can easily go and talk fluently, what the f*** am I thinking? So I go out to the kitchen and spark up some random convo with my mum. I'll just go up to her and ask whats for dinner and whats on TV? Won't stutter once. Whenever I wake up in the mornings, sometimes I don't think about stuttering and I speak fluently, until I notice that something feels out of place and I begin to realise I'm not stuttering. I strongly, strongly, strongly believe that if I was in an accident and suffered memory loss my stutter would disappear. It's like my stutter is planted strongly into my brain. It's like when your annoying sibling gets into your head when you're fighting and drives you crazy. Usually I rock up to work all emotionless and I tend to block sometimes, however, when something good happens prior to work such as my football team wins or I achieve something, I rock up to work in a great mood and don't stutter really. So do you think confidence has something to do with stuttering? I know this is commonly thought of, but I really feel that this is the reason for my stutter. I've always been told that I'm smart and can do anything (except for a few people who think I'm dumb because I stutter), but I've never really achieved anything. I always tell myself that when my life gets better I'll stop stuttering because my confidence will grow. Does anyone get what I'm saying?