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From: Gary J. Rentschler
Date: 17 Oct 2012
Time: 06:30:08 -0500
Remote Name: 173.75.62.6
Certainly social and cultural beliefs can affect stuttering. Some time ago in the United States, stuttering was believed (by some) to be a mental disorder. While subsequently disproven, this placed a stigma on the person who stuttered, often making the impact of stuttering worse. There is no research to support a mental disorder or being bewitched to be the cause of stuttering.. but such social (mis)beliefs do serve to make the problem faced by the person who stutters worse.