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29 May 2025, 6:58 pm

I posted to social media about a stuttering episode I recently had, and someone who doesn't know me very well correctly assumed I have autism.

Come to think of it a few of my spectrum friends do stutter

What I don't get is how the two can be related? the best explanation I have for myself is that sometimes my mouth moves faster than my brain and stuttering is like a buffer.


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29 May 2025, 7:35 pm

I'd assume autism might make one more prone to the issues that underlie a stutter.

That said, I don't think I'm prone to stuttering, although I can fake it if I think I want to turn up the awkwardness for comedic purposes.


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29 May 2025, 8:25 pm

I think I get it, the comorbilities make one prone to stuttering. I assume anxiety would be a big one.


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29 May 2025, 9:43 pm

I don't have a stuttering problem. I do seem to flip from "college professor" to "60s flower girl" though.

"When a worker honeybee stings, its stinger gets ripped out, along with vital organs attached to the stinger, so it may mean pain for the victim, but it means death for the honeybee. Which might be like, totally cruel and and a real bummer, but that's like nature, maaan."

Okay, I exaggerated a little bit. :lol:



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29 May 2025, 9:54 pm

I dont have much of a stutter but I do have a slight speech impairment in which I had to take speech class as a kid. From my experience things like this are hereditary and has nothing to do with autism though an autistic individual can also have a stutter. I seem to have inherited my speech impairment from my mother's side of the family. My mom also has a slight speech impairment and also I have a nephew that inherited it. When he was a toddler he had a very hard time pronouncing the sh sound. I think I also had a hard time with that. Also I want to think King Charles grandfather king George who was king of england during WWII had a stutter and a movie was made about it called the kings speech. Not entirely sure but I dont think he was autistic. Just had a speech impairment.



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01 Jun 2025, 10:57 am

jamie0.0 wrote:
I posted to social media about a stuttering episode I recently had, and someone who doesn't know me very well correctly assumed I have autism.

Come to think of it a few of my spectrum friends do stutter

What I don't get is how the two can be related? the best explanation I have for myself is that sometimes my mouth moves faster than my brain and stuttering is like a buffer.


Fried brain wiring, probably.


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02 Jun 2025, 2:53 am

^^probably


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03 Jun 2025, 12:16 pm

jamie0.0 wrote:
I posted to social media about a stuttering episode I recently had, and someone who doesn't know me very well correctly assumed I have autism.

Come to think of it a few of my spectrum friends do stutter

What I don't get is how the two can be related? the best explanation I have for myself is that sometimes my mouth moves faster than my brain and stuttering is like a buffer.


I don't stutter, but this WOULD make sense. If you lose track of what exactly you are saying, or if it isn't quite right, you could end up stuttering. The stuttering is kind of an instinctive response to get the idea across.



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03 Jun 2025, 12:26 pm

Mostly anxiety.

Potentially verbal processing issues second.
Either some form of language interruption or primarily speech as in physical expression.

Either ways, interruptions; doubt, memory issues, hesitancy, sudden dropping, overcorrection...


I don't stutter.
I mispronounce and misword instead.


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