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Do I stutter? I have recently realised that maybe I stutter. I say maybe because I don't have trouble with starts or certain sounds or onsets, but I literally freeze mid sentence, several times, for what feels like an eternity. I know what I want to say, but the sentence might not be quite formulated in my head, and then when i freeze I sort of panic and can't find the next word. Sometimes it happens when I want to swap for another word and I can't retrieve it. I completely freeze, nothing moves, I don't blink, I don't move. It is like the connection is lost. When I was i kid I slurred my words a lot, and I remember stammering for a brief period. I also have this unconscious behaviour pattern of scratching and touching my face, rubbing my eyes... and my eyes flicker when I speak, like I am thinking really hard, trying to stay "online" I suppose, before I freeze.