When did you start.....

[Perseverance]

Hiya, i was wondering if you started stuttering, when you learnt to speak OR when you learnt to read ??

[Box of Clocks]

For me it wasn't either of those. I started stuttering when I was about 8. The condition wasn't too bad at first but as I became older it seemed to get somewhat worse.

[Charlieb]

similar to box, I started at around the same age (I think) For me I think it was a bad experience that I had with a teacher in school, She totally over reacted and gave me a smack across the face. BUt I'm over all that and looking forward to the future

Charlie

[Standingtall]

Hiya, i was wondering if you started stuttering, when you learnt to speak OR when you learnt to read ??
For me, it all started when a teacher made an issue out of my stutter in front of the whole class. Before that i did not know i have a stutter.

[zerocool79]

I am one of those who started late. It was in my late teens and early 20's. I just happened slowly gradually complicating my life. Some think that because some stutterers start late or are mild stutterers then it is not a big deal but it really has ruined some opportunities and put me down so many times.

Regards,
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[emily445455]

Geez what kind of teacher is that, standingtall? That's sad :(

I'm not sure what age i started stuttering...I know I was young.

[Clairy]

thats terrible about the teachers, you can never trust the people you're supposed to nowadays eh?..

i started stammering in nursery when my "best friend" picked on me.. i guess it was confidence or something, i'm now 16 and my stammer has got worse over the years..

like i said, can never trust people you're supposed to these days!..

[emily445455]

Yeah, my "best friends" in high school teased me the most about my stutter...I guess they weren't that good of friends...I have better friends now, lol :)

[DKoz]

I started when I was 6 or 7.

My stuttering was in repetitive sounds (forget the name) where you sounds like s-s-s before saying the word. Now I have blocks where I would get stuck on the first sound of the word.

[emily0624]

That's interesting..I guess I'd have to ask my parents to be sure. I think it was around 6 years old or something....I don't think it had any connection to learning to read. But I'll ask my parents, now I'm curious....

[tb1223]

As long as I can remember. I learned to read at a really early age, so I dunno.

[Kev]

I've been lurking on the forum for a while. But reading CharlieB's and StandingTall's experiences with teachers compelled me to post. I was also the target of an instructor's insidious attack regarding my speech in front of a classroom.

A few months prior to this incident, my mother informed me that she noticed I had recently begun to stutter. That was the first time I was made aware of it. (My problem was actually cluttering and not stuttering)

The incident with the instructor unfolded in a job training class in the summer of 2000. One day the instructor asked me to come to the front of the class. I naturally assumed he was going to have me participate in some sort of educational demonstration for the class.

To my horror, he immediately proceeded to tell the class that I stutter when I get nervous.

The entire class was literally speechless. And for several uncomfortable seconds, I stood in front of the class, next to the instructor, frozen in a state of shock.

The intense silence was obviously not the reaction the instructor expected. He then suddenly excused himself from the room and bolted out of the room with his tail between his legs.

Another student offered to take my place in front of the room and I returned to my seat. The instructor returned to the room with enough nerve to actually tell me to get back in front of the class. When he realized I wasn't going to do that, he let it go and continued as though nothing happened.

To this day, I'm not sure why I simply took that and didn't confront the guy or report him to his superiors. The instructor had a troubling pattern of belittling people in the class, but nobody ever confronted him.
I certainly wouldn't let anyone get away with something like that nowadays.

This experience made me realize that I needed to address whatever problems I was having with my speech.

[Chad]

I've stuttered for as long as I can remember, and I feel like it's gotten worse the older & more aware of it I have become.

I don't have any terrible experiences with teachers like others have shared. I was usually belittled by my mother though. One phrase I recall vividly and heard often was, "if you can't talk to me like a normal person than don't talk to me at all".

I don't really blame her for being ignorant, she was a young, single mom who obviously had no idea how to deal with a child with a speech impediment.

But on the flip side, I do think that had I gotten the proper therapy in the beginning, I might not stutter today.

[nate]

I started after my parents died. They died in car crash and my brother and I were in the car. I dont really remember the incident or anything but my uncle says I didnt speak for a few weeks after that and then when i started speaking it was shitstorm. He's a reverend so he didnt quite use those words.
Nathaniel

[nate]

Where I'm from the teachers would whoop me silly. I nearly lost an eye to a piece of flying chalk once. French teachers should be banned. And French too while theyre at it. Most days I had a sore butt or sore hands by 5 pm. Thats why I'm not a teacher. LOL
Nate.