commentr/StutterSeptember 30, 2015

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>I have never hear of "chronic disfluency disorder" That's because one of them is called "stuttering". Stuttering/stammering is a disfluency. I'm 31. My brothers both stutter, our father stuttered, his father stuttered, we all went through years and years of speech therapy, and all of us are still stutterers and always will be. I came to terms with my disfluency forever ago. How I 'feel' about it didn't change my stutter, it just made it easier for me to handle it. If you believe your stuttering is caused only by emotional issues, then to be honest, I think you either don't have chronic disfluency at all, or you're just fooling yourself. But you have to do what works for you, and if coming to that conclusion is what does it, then awesome. Just keep in mind that for most actual stutterers, this is very little help, as they're battling something--an error in how their brains communicate with their body--that they have no control over, happy thoughts or no.

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Causes & VariabilityIdentity & Disability

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Genetic & Family FactorsNeurological & BrainIdentity & Self-Perception