I definitely agree. I have a similar thought. Maybe the worst thing about stuttering is the downspiral that happens after. If we don't let that occur and do what we're supposed to, stuttering in itself becomes less threatening. *Much of the memories of my stutter involve the pain I was in when I was alone. Sometimes I don't even recall the exact scenes of stuttering.* If we downspiral, we will have an increased fear response to stuttering the next time we speak. If we keep up, it will decrease accordingly. This could be the reason why almost all stutters have periods of fluency. The more positive momentum we have, the less stuttering has an effect on our actions. When we start to increase our expectations of fluency, we set ourselves up for a downspiral. Hypothetically, if our day remained the same whether we stutter or not, fluency would be neutral to our goals, and so must be our expectations of it. The adverse effect is produced when fluency turns from being neutral to having a causal effect in our following actions.