Thanks for the post. It's a great personal account with perspective insight. I do think someone can develop stuttering, but its pretty damn hard without some predisposition for it (usually genetic). I dont think PWS necessarily have naturally clearer body language per say, but a lot of us do put more focus on nonverbal methods of communication. I dont think that stuttering itself is a learned behavior. As mentioned above, I do think there is a genetic link and brain-connection component to it, but I will contend that stuttering as most of us experience it is a behavior. Actually let me clarify, stuttering is a behavior. its something we do. But I don't think its totally a learned behavior for the reasons I listed. However, throughout our childhood we've all likely unconsciously formed behaviors around it and beliefs associated with it that are very very difficult for us to break. Beliefs and behaviors that only increase our struggle. I think most of our stuttering behavior is maladaptive. The trigger is probably a set of beliefs we hold about our stutters. I think for most of us, these beliefs were formed a long time ago and so unconsciously we most of us can't see what those beliefs are. I personally have been trying to understand how exactly I feel about stuttering/while stuttering and its been really difficult to identify my true inner feelings from what I think im feeling. I do want to ask you though, on a scale of 1-10. 10 being nearly perfectly fluent and 1 being unable to say a sound, where would you rate your speech on average prior to 20 years old?