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Interesting. Both my cousin and I stutter. We share maternal grandparents. While allegedly our stuttering was triggered by being suddenly scared, in early childhood, I had always wondered if there is a genetic component to it as well.

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Do you positively know the emotionally traumatic event that caused psychogenic stuttering in you and your cousin? It’s a lot rarer than people used to believe, so I wouldn’t jump to that conclusion without good evidence. Both of you having developmental stuttering with a genetic component would seem more likely.

Not positively, no. It's anecdotal. Both him and I must have been around the 3-5 years old. I remember the experience just not if it's 100% what triggered the stuttering. My uncle and aunt are sure it was the trigger for my cousin.

I can see it being both a genetic component but it needed a trigger too to start happening.

If you can spare ~$400, Whole Genome Sequencing can offer some insight into whether your condition has some genetic cause.

Since some years every condition has "a genetic cause". Will be nice if those studies (3.5 miliions $ for playing with data from some databases - wow) will actually do real studies not just correlation.

I am thinking about it. Thanks for the suggestion.

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