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the neurological thing doesn't mean you have brain damage. It's the brain that has developed different speech patterns or uses different areas to elaborate speech. i read this in some article but i ca...

No you are the same as everyone else. There is only one thing matters. if its neurological you fuck'd. You cant overcome your stutter, if its not its possible that you can overcome....

No you would not stutter. For most people, such as myself, the problem is believed to be psychological. Ever woken up before and spoken without stuttering? Done it plenty of times. Some people stutte...

i think that all the born-stutterers ( i mean those which stuttering started since they began to talk) have neurological difference in the brain and instead others' stuttering is driven only by nerves...

its a mix of both... if you stutter only cause of nerves than yeah... but most of us have some kind of physical disposition to it....

so do you think it's just a psychological problem and not a physical difference in the brain compared to non-stutterers? ...

Mind blowing questions

Mind blowing questions I stutter since i started talking and i have a mind blowing question for you guys. I have always wondered if one day, for some reason, I suddenly lose the memory would i continu...

The occipital lobe is responsible for vision, not speech. If your speech was to be affected by a head injury, it would have had to be a stroke or lesion to the motor planning area in the parietal lobe...

I have a bachelors degree in communication sciences & disorders, and I also stutter. I can tell you that your tonsils play no part in stuttering. Stuttering isn't a result motor (muscle) issues or...

I dont want to be the bad guy around here but i got to say if your stuttering neurological probably you cant overcome. Still that doesnt mean life can be suck. Go to speech therapy seriously you can c...

Sorry if you read that as me attacking you! I wasn't. I just want to make sure other people don't read your story and think there is some miraculous cure to stuttering. Personally, the knowledge that ...

I disagree that stuttering is anxiety-based. Brain scans have shown that people who stutter have differences in brain structure and brain chemistry. Certainly we can all agree that we still stutter ev...

they're different in a number of ways. I'll summarize the ones I think are most important for speech. Anatomically: 1) reduced gray matter volume in speech related areas (notably the left inferior f...

How are the brains different? If you mean different areas of the brain respond differently for stutterers than nonstutterers, can't that be the result of intense ingrained fears that create such disti...

I'm not impressed. He's made a straw man argument of the "people think stuttering is neurological". Firstly, he doesn't explain what he means by 'neurological.' Secondly, he does not account for featu...

Many people who stutter experience a reduction in stuttering frequency and severity when speaking in the presence of noise. This is a group phenomenon, but it's not exhibited by everyone (like me, I h...

interesting story. Thanks. I had a friend in college who learned to manage his Tourette's Syndrome with meditation. With regard to your questions. The first two are empirical and we don't really hav...

Thanks for sharing your story. But I don't think stuttering or my stuttering is due to something faulty in the mouth but rather in the chest. ...

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)....

Well kinda sorta ... The first disorder Orton and Travis (psychologists) studied was stuttering. This drew Johnson, Van Riper, Williams (early speech pathologists) etc to the University of Iowa ... it...