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The sad thing is that psychology really is important to a PWS--it's just not a cure. It's true that stress and anxiety are almost always triggers, and it's helpful to learn healthy ways to process anx...

Your stutter is an emotional disorder due to early age avoidance? If the stutter is an emotional disorder and it was causes by avoidance, how did you stutter in the beginning to result in avoidance wh...

> can speak perfectly fluent when they are alone. That doesn't mean anything decisive. All it might mean is that their emotions/anxiety aren't exacerbating their conditions, therefore making it ma...

As far as I know, and I know about 20 stutterers, the vast majority of stutterers can speak perfectly fluent when they are alone. This is why I will say that for most stutterers it is not a physiologi...

I have never hear of "chronic disfluency disorder", and I am sorry you are afflicted by that. I do know a lot about speech therapy - I've been to two week intensive therapy programs and have read seve...

Yes, I do. I also stutter when talking to my cat, when talking to my hamster, when dreaming, sometimes even while singing. Other PWS might have a different experience, and so what if they do? Negative...

I think your mental handicaps go beyond your stutter. Are you seeing a therapist?...

Interesting theory. I recall having a strep infection in my nose when I was young, before my stutter started to develop. I've never made the correlation between the two, so there might be some truth i...

I don't recognize such a correlation from my own childhood (before the onset of stuttering)....

Potential interesting cause of stuttering!

Potential interesting cause of stuttering! Hi everyone, So I've had a stutter all of my life but has gotten much better. I still have stuttering but it's more of a speech block where I know exactly ...

it's not just trauma, there should be a sudden unexpected shock like a huge dog coming at you and barking in your face very loudly all of a sudden when you are a little kid like 3 y.o. when your nervo...

Well I can tell you I did not have much emotional trauma when I was a kid, no more than an average kid can expect to have. And if you look at kids that grew up with true abuse, stuttering is not the ...

My point is that emotional trauma is not the root of stuttering. Genetics I think is most likely required, based on available evidence. You are twisting the language to fit your viewpoint....

so it probably implies predisposition or vulnerability. Thus a trigger like a psychological trauma/shock can ruin the speech. Especially in a child when a person is not yet strong enough. ...

Stuttering isn't caused by things like an overbearing and scary parent. Psychogenic stuttering resulting from emotional trauma is either exceedingly rare (aka doesn't apply to you) or not a basis at a...

Have you analyzed it? What's causing it for you? I have some thoughts on this. Like do you have better speech talking to some people, and with others you don't? Did you have a psychological trauma when you were a kid?

Have you analyzed it? What's causing it for you? I have some thoughts on this. Like do you have better speech talking to some people, and with others you don't? Did you have a psychological trauma whe...

My 3 shitty problems and their shittier solutions............please help me come up with better ones

My 3 shitty problems and their shittier solutions............please help me come up with better ones Hey r/stutter Im a 19 year old Chemical Engineering student in Canada. Ever since I was a child I h...

Question for people who lisp and stutter. I couldn't find a lisp subreddit so thought i'd ask here

Question for people who lisp and stutter. I couldn't find a lisp subreddit so thought i'd ask here Can you hear yourself lisp? (I legitimately didn't know i had a lisp until people told me. In recordi...

rant.

rant. I'm 25 years old and I have little to no social skills because it never developed due to me being quiet my whole life. I have one friend that I speak to online somewhat frequently and two others...

Hoping this makes its way further up the page, but the OP has indicated that his stuttering was caused by some external trauma. He did not have a developmental stutter. ...