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Does stuttering run in your family? First-time poster here, wonderful sub. Wish Reddit had existed when I was a teenager! My mother was a stutterer and so am I. I am wondering how common this is, in part because I now have children of my own. I'm in my mid-thirties and a life-long stutterer whose fluency has improved enough that very few people even notice. I have a career where public speaking -- which I used to dread but have grown to enjoy in part because it is a huge personal victory -- is a major element. My late mother was also a stutterer. I never heard her stutter; by the time I came along she had found strategies to cope, but nothing that she could share with me to prevent years of speech therapy. So my question is this: how many of you are aware of a family history of stuttering? I ask this in part because I now have children of my own. I have begun to detect hints of stuttering in one of them. It could be nothing, as this child is very young. But I want to understand as much as possible in case I've handed this issue down to another generation.