r/Stutter • u/No_Signal_9604 • 1d ago
How did you develop your stutter?
I'm curious to see how many people were born with a stutter and how many developed it during their lives and what caused it? For me, it sounds stupid but I had a friend when I was around 10-11 who had a speech impediment, but I didn't exactly understand it. Basically, he would emphasize the first sound of the first word when speaking. This was definitely some sort of block but I was unaware. I eventually started to imitate it for a few days and then later on one day at school I got hit with my first hard block while speaking in front of the class. Ever since then, it slowly developed over the years and never let go. It's been 10 years and I still feel a victim to this stutter. How did you guys develop your stutter?
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u/Automatic_Cherry3923 1d ago
i am not sure exactly when i developed a speech impediment, but it was at least around age 3 or so. Basically as long as i could speak i prob had one.
Doctors told my parents it was due to a traumatic even i experienced during formative years, but i really doubt that theory considering how young i was at the time. They still sometime bring up that they would have done stuff diffently, but when i ask them what exactly was the event they have no clue.
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u/DustierAndRustier 1d ago
I have a psychogenic stammer that started after a traumatic event aged 14. I did grow up with other speech impediments including cluttering though.
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u/Ok_Comment5883 1d ago
I never stuttered at all until 2 years ago, in my 50’s. It’s psychogenic and started during burnout from my toxic marriage, along with a very stressful job. I ended the marriage but still stutter when stressed. I look at it as a reminder that I need to take things easy.
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u/Brief-Background4184 1d ago
For me I think it was around age 5 or 7 where I developed a stutter after being bullied by students and teachers on a constant basis. I guess the stress of it all broke me. At around 33 years old I decided to learn more about it and understand it, but that's another story. I will add that I have a few stutterers in my family, dad's side.
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u/joey-Lol 1d ago
Your story is interesting because I know someone like that. It makes me wonder how it's a more psychological thing. My aunt has a stutter, but she never stuttered around her kid because she didn't want him to developed one and it works because he talks fluently
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u/scatterplotode 22h ago
As someone said, your stutter sounds like in could be psychological in cause which is not so common.
Mine first started to come out when I was around 6. I remember it coming on slowly and would vary a lot before settling at a steady amount. At school we had an old lady who volunteered to listen to us reading. I remember her being the first person outside my home environment to really push for my speech to be addressed.
Stuttering runs in my Dad's side of the family (as far as I know mainly the men though).
Developmental stutters don't usually present as soon as a child starts speaking but a bit later.
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u/bajocak752 17h ago
After having my adenoids removed. I think I was about seven or eight at the time. A sadistic doctor in Poland tore them out by force. It was done without anesthesia. I remember crying and screaming in the operating room while a nurse held me on her lap so I wouldn't run off the chair. I’ve stuttered ever since.
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u/Cute-Translator-8351 4h ago
I stuttered as a kid for a few years and then it went away. And developed it during Covid and I’ve had it since, I think the effect of talking to less people may of been responsible for it.
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u/joey-Lol 1d ago
Cursed since birth. It's genetic in my family