Thank you so much! That's really interesting! It makes a lot of sense that stuttering throughout childhood can hugely impact the way people who stutter think and feel. However, I'm beginning to believe that stuttering starts just as much for environmental reasons as for neurophysical ones (I assume that refers to wiring of the brain?). As in, I feel like, for some people at least, the mental aspects can cause the physical reaction of stuttering almost entirely, even from the start. I know there is a lot of research on early childhood development, and a child can be hugely influenced in the first year or so of their life. Based in this information, it's almost not surprising that something experienced in this time can cause a reaction like stuttering, just as it can cause things like mental illness (not that I'm trying to compare stuttering to mental illness, I'm just making the point that environmental influences in early childhood can cause a long-term, predictable, and non-unique response throughout a person's life).