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Hiya - there are two things that I often wonder about, when we're having discussions in here. Perhaps you could comment on them in turn: 1. The _variance_ between stutterers and within an individual stutter over time or from context to context can be very difficult to explain in a satisfying manner. But we keep coming back to it, and all we can really say for sure seems to be "yeah, it varies a whole freaking lot and you never know what to expect". Is any research being done on the "flux" in particular, that so many of us have to tackle (conceptually, if not emotionally)? 2. "Mindset" is a thing that we discuss a lot too. By this I mean things like general mood and outlook, but also the models of self-understanding being adhered to (which includes various notions of what a stutter might be, and what a stutter_er_ might be), and various trends in conceptualization. Has any research been done into whether there are beneficial strategies to simply learning to 'think differently' in a way that satisfies both the need for understanding oneself and also helps make sense of stuttering events? Mind you, these are both topics that are influenced a lot by my own conversations and thoughts, so it's not at all certain that it'll make sense to you straightforwardly. At any rate, I hope you can find something in there to comment on, since I consider it two very frequent topics in here, that we would want to know more about, in a more rigid manner. Thanks for taking the time! :)