The Causes And Reasons Why Some People Start Stuttering
I have been asked many times, why certain people develop a
stutter. I personally believe there are many reasons and this
article describes some of them and gives examples of why certain
people of whom I have met via my occupation, started to stutter.
I myself had the 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. 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.
Quite a few people are not sure, however other people state the
following reasons:
It was triggered after a traumatic event
It runs in the family
They copied a friend at school who had a stutter 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 was able to talk fluently
until the age of twenty-four. She then fell pregnant for the
first time, and was very excited about the prospect of becoming
a mum.
She was apprehensive about the birth and her friends had been
winding her up by telling her how painful the experience is. She
knew that they were only teasing and tried to ignore their
comments.
The day of the birth arrived and unfortunately the delivery was
particulary difficult and very painful. This really shocked and
traumatised her, she had never imagined that it could have been
that bad. After the birth of the baby, who was a healthy boy,
she developed a stutter.
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 had a car crash and this was the trigger for him to start
stuttering.