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How I've treated my stuttering. Hi folks, want to give you guys my story. My stuttering started in school, almost as early as I can remember, but got under my full control at around 20, i.e. I've been stutter-free for soon two years. I have used no mind but my own to do this and I wish to tell you how I've done it. I'm telling you this so you might, just might, find some information that could prove useful to you. I started by reversing the question "how do I stop stuttering?" into "what would any person need to start stuttering?". Sometimes it is easier to prove that the opposite is false (math.). So if I can know what would be needed to start stuttering I might be able to figure out how I could stop it. I read all the books about communication I could get my hands on, since I needed any advantage I could get. I don't consider my stuttering to be anything else than psychological, since if I do, I can modify it. I consider stuttering to be a behavior, that you somehow pick up and then gets unconsciously triggered every time you try to speak (or maybe only on specific occasions). Anyhow, I got sick around 18 (pretty bad) so I learned how to meditate simply because I couldn't handle any future thoughts, so that was the only way I knew to get into the "now", to be able to feel anything and maybe a little bit of happiness. Meditation did also prove useful in my struggle with stuttering. So, after a horribly stuttering day at university I came home and started my meditations immediately. I found that the absolute hardest place I could relax in was my tongue. It was tense as hell. I have never even felt it before. It was a revelation. After that day, I programmed my mind that every time I started to speak, I would relax my tongue (my trigger). After some months I relaxed automatically and my stuttering would not trigger like it used to. After a lot of practice it actually didn't trigger at all. My stuttering problem was over. No one can speak perfectly and I am no exception. But that is just human and the important part is that the stuttering (and all the shit that comes with it) is under my control. I've done my best to somewhat describe my approach in a short text. I've got some questions that I would like to have some of your opinions on if you got the time and will : ) Can you make someone develop stuttering? Do stutterers have a clearer body language? Do you agree with me that stuttering is a behavior? Could most, or maybe all, of our automatic behavior have a trigger?