Why Some People Start Stuttering
I had a speech impediment, known as a stutter for eighteen years, it started to ruin my life from the age of four. After successfully overcoming the stutter at the age of twenty-two, I now as a career help other people to achieve fluency by running stuttering help courses here in the UK. As you can imagine, I have therefore met and helped many people who stutter, and always ask them, how and why in their opinion their stutter started.
There are those who have absolutely no idea as to why the stutter developed but these are some of the reasons that other people told me:
It was triggered after a traumatic event
It runs in the family
They copied a friend at school who had a stuttering problem and then it stuck with them
An over aggressive relative
Because they were left handed!
A couple of years ago, I had a female client who told me about how she had developed a stutter. She had developed this form of speech impediment when she was a young adult. She then fell pregnant for the first time, and was very excited about the prospect of becoming a mum.
Like no doubt the majority of first time mothers she had quite a few reservations about the birth and her mates did not exactly help by telling her just how much the whole experience hurts – they were doing this to wind her up of course. At the end of the day she was fully aware that this was just the way in which her friends were and therefore took their comments with a pinch of salt.
The day of the birth arrived and unfortunately the delivery was particulary difficult and very painful. Even though she had believed that it would have some certain pain she had never expected it to be any where near as bad as this and she went into a form of shock. For whatever reason she started to stutter after the birth of her healthy boy.
Not all people who stutter have it from an early age, another one of my clients was fluent until the age of nineteen. At this age he was being bullied at work where he was a DVD authoring superviser and this was the trigger for him to start stuttering. I am happy to report that he has now also managed to achieve fluency.
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