Wow this is very close to what happened to me and I am nearly fully fluent at this point where when I stutter I don't even remember it or care to because it's just no big dealt to me. I must have stumbled onto this mindset and idea's subconsciously as I went but it all started with me deciding never to think about my stutter again and only focus on what message i wanna say if i feel like it. Like during a bad bout, never to think back to how others might have perceived you, etc, just reminded myself I can be fluent, and choose to, and don't look back. What ever happens happens and I would just move on and allow my block to reset and go away as randomly and easily as it came. And that became this positive re-enforcement mechanism where my brain saw me succeed even after a stutter, saw it was no big deal, and it became less and less worrisome where-as when i used to worry and think of it and remind myself of the bad bout I went through, that was a negative re-inforcement mechanism that just brought the blocking back to the forefront. It's a twist of fate that the less we think about it the better it likely will be because we tend to assume we need to think more about something to make it better but...for me it was the opposite. I didn't let my worry linger, i didn't allow myself to dwell on it, instead i thought more on what I wanted to get across and if I stuttered I knew it was never indefinite even though sometimes it felt like it could be. I knew it always ALWAYS let go so I worried less knowing the block would let go and if I didn't think about what others thought, I wouldn't drag it on and push it to all the sentences and words to come. I read like half of the OP so far and it def. hits home! It's easier said than done at first but with time it becomes habit and more and more effortless to the point where it's natural. And I have other things on my mind and not the stutter at all. I just don't allow myself to and now I'm so used to it.