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oh damn, i had painful ear infections in my early childhood all the time and ive become an adult stutterer....

Astute observation! There's a saying: "genetics loads the gun, environment pulls the trigger". With stuttering though, it seems like a loose trigger so if it wasn't family, it would've been something ...

First, stuttering can be passed genetically down in families. It's pretty common. For example, my mom, my aunt, and my maternal grandmother all stuttered. This has been well documented. Not all cases ...

I'm not a speech pathologist, just read what I could about it & have my own hypothesis - I think that it could be an inherited tendency, possible mix of DNA. This can be triggered by an incident ...

How many of you think that the predisposition to developing a stutter can be passed on through genes, and whether one develops it depends on environment?

How many of you think that the predisposition to developing a stutter can be passed on through genes, and whether one develops it depends on environment? I just have a general question, just for fun.....

I never want to talk to anyone

I never want to talk to anyone I don’t really know where to begin this so I will just start from childhood. I have been stuttering since I was about ten years old. Growing up, this gave me huge proble...

Breaking out of asocial behavior

Breaking out of asocial behavior Has anyone developed an asocial type of lifestyle? I have and I don't know I feel about it. My stammer was bad when I was a child and it had quite a negative effect o...

I often think about this. Why isn't this a good enough argument to say the cause for some pws is social anxiety ?My latest belif is that when i was a kid i stuttered(accidentaly) on a few words and pr...

No. My speech pathologist says that people who don't stutter while talking to themselves or singing have developmental stutter as apposed to psychological. Anxiety can be a factor, ever heard of start...

Umm. I don't remember any specific examples but there have been cases where people would develop a stutter after being in an accident where they got hit in the head. Such as through a car accident or ...

Can you go into more detail about the head trauma thing? I was hit by a car when I was very little, I don't remember if it was before or after I started stuttering though....

While I understand what your saying, I don't think it's solely because of anxiety. You get people who develop a stutter after physical head trauma. There are cases of it running in the family. Then we...

That's kind of interesting. My kindergarten teacher did the same thing to me. I have always wondered if that was one of my root causes. I've never heard anyone else voice that theory other than myse...

Can changing back to my dominant hand fix my stuttering?

Can changing back to my dominant hand fix my stuttering? I developed a stutter around the time my mom forced me to change writing hands (from left to right around 5-6 years old). My doctor said this m...

I grew up in a household in which my stepfather didn't understand it. He often said that "I only stuttered when I lied". If that was the case, I must've lied a whole lot. It was hell on me and real...

I would like to put in a cautionary word: People at the age of fifteen do not often just start stuttering for no reason. The first line of diagnosis is to get a very good, very thorough physical with ...

Why am I stuttering??

Why am I stuttering?? So over the last few months I've started stuttering quite a bit and also can't pronounce some words when I m saying a sentence. Why?? I have been depressed the last 6 months and ...

Well i can tell you one thing, your not alone. Far from it. What you described is almost exactly my life. I remember this traumatizing incident when i was a kid going into a new class in the middle o...

Folk myth about stuttering that you heard of

Folk myth about stuttering that you heard of **Post the myths you've heard of and let's discuss them. Here's mine** A folk myth that i heard of was that scaring someone added/removed stutter to/from ...

My story

My story According to my mom I started stuttering after a trauma. I was around three years old and was playing with pearls. Somehow a pearl got stuck in my nose and we went to the hospital to take it ...