***"So, if this is true, then I think addressing stuttering towards automatic processes (i.e., stuttering remission) should involve two elements:"*** 1. ***Automatic processes – How do we kickstart the automatic processes?*** 2. ***Fear-panic response – How do we minimize its impact or increase our tolerance to conditioned stimuli?*** I will answer based on the theory I mentioned in the other post, ok, and "what works," I’ll tell you what worked for me. Indeed, to make speech completely automatic, we should: Not using dysfunctional techniques/behaviors that hinder the automatic process of fluency. This is the easier of the two (though not easy). You must monitor yourself not to use them and have patience not to use them. The way I found that works for me personally is not thinking about fluency or stuttering at all when I’m speaking. In the past, I used to scan for difficult words to initiate some compensatory behavior (which would compromise the automatic speech process). For me, it works to focus entirely on the content or the listener. It's the maximum I can make the speech process “secondary” in my consciousness and let it flow freely. Like in the background, while I focus my attention and thoughts on other things. I used to stutter at a level 2, and now it’s level 1, and I can present in public, work as a psychologist and teacher, and use my speech without problems for whatever I want. Occasionally, I stutter, and when that happens, I literally ignore that I stuttered and keep going. I don’t think about what others are thinking, or the word I stuttered on, or avoid the next word. I just act like it didn’t happen. Sometimes I fail to completely ignore it, and an intrusive thought invades me (“Are people judging me for stuttering? Thinking I don’t master the content and that’s why I stuttered?”) and in this moment of hesitation, the stuttering comes back a bit more, but I stay calm and start ignoring all those thoughts, focusing on other things, and the stuttering appears less like it did before. All of this is already anticipated by me that it could happen (even the intrusive thoughts), and I know how to handle it, so I stay calm. ***Fear-panic response – How do we minimize its impact or increase our tolerance to conditioned stimuli?*** I don’t know if we can increase tolerance directly, since the stimulus is there to precisely serve this function: to provoke physiological responses that are important biologically and evolutionarily, but as a consequence, they affect fluency negatively. What helps for me, and I believe reduces the intensity of emotions, are some mental and behavioral strategies: Mental: I know I will stutter eventually, and this is not the end of the world. So I don’t need to fear that moment because it will come, and I can handle it perfectly. I study and apply Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with my patients and with myself, so I’m not afraid of negative thoughts, I don’t believe them when they invade my mind, so they don’t destabilize me emotionally like they do for other people who stutter. Behavioral: I don’t feel embarrassed or retreat when I stutter. In a stronger stuttering moment, I even talk about it openly. I’ve talked about it in the classroom and other situations, like in Instagram videos. Stuttering, thus, has gradually become a less aversive stimulus for me, to the point that, TODAY, stuttering provokes very mild emotions (i.e., conditioned responses like tachycardia, freezing, etc... of low intensity). So low that sometimes I don’t even notice it. At a certain point in my life, if someone noticed and asked, “Do you stutter?” it would have made me feel bad for a week. Today I talk openly about it and deal with it differently.