To give an additional angle to what's been presented in the thread so far: We're not "in our mind" before we're "in the world". This means there's not a "place" where we reside, and from which we want to speak, and where in doing so we create a failure, such that in speaking we don't reach the world properly. We're always "in the world". Communication is never a case of bringing something _to_ the world that was hiding "in perfection" somewhere. It's merely a matter of doing the thing we wanted to do, and once it's done, we can see how it turned out. So, stutter isn't a failure to deliver "perfection". It's just that when we do what we want to do - _speak_ - it turns out it can be different from what we were trying to do. This is how we are - it's not something we're "making up" - and this is what we can seek to deal with in various ways. And yes, there are many thing to explain about the stutter itself, and we've not yet figured out just how many things might be involved for any given stutterer.