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From: Jen
Date: 13 Oct 2011
Time: 23:41:40 -0500
Remote Name: 74.15.98.188
Is it possible for a person or an event to cause someone to stutter? I didn't start to stutter until I was nearly 8 years old and I've always blamed it on a specific person with whom I had a traumatic encounter just before onset. But now that I've been reading about some of the research on genetics and fMRI, I'm trying to figure out how this new information fits into the picture. I have a grandparent who stutters so there's a genetic link but I’m confused at how stuttering could suddenly appear in a child who had already been speaking for several years. And the question that keeps me up at night is would I have started to stutter even if the traumatic event hadn’t occurred.