Wow, very interesting thesis. Best of luck with it Have you read any Van Riper by any chance? Or the older authors in the field. Van Riper talks about the more a person tries not to stammer, invariably they will stammer more. I can certainly relate to this…speaking to authority figures has very often equated to stressful speaking situations…. I think it reasonable to assume many people who stammer can have difficulty with social anxiety but not to say social anxiety causes or may cause stammering which is a premise I have read before I wrote about shame and stammering previously. It helped me a great deal in my own journey so I hope your thesis is healing for you. One piece of advice if I may. When I wrote my Thesis, I wrote a reflexive account (almost as an aside). This proved most enlightening for the Thesis supervisor. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions