You are thinking right and your question is valid. With stuttering the more thoughts and energy we put into it the more we support the internal framework that already exists that supports it and gives it life. The thoughts, feelings, and emotions support it. This is why when I would get super serious about overcoming stuttering I would always spiral and it would actually get so much worse. One time, many many years ago, when practicing with another stutterer he pointed out that I didn’t stutter on a T word, which I always blocked on a T word. At that point, I realized I literally forgot to stutter, somehow, it didn’t come up at that moment. I also realized that without the thought there was no stutter in that circumstance. However, as I went on, I realized it wasn’t exactly that clean. Sometimes I wouldn’t think about stuttering, but the thought/feeling of a situation, conversation, person or environment would build up tension and I wouldn’t see a stutter coming but it still happened. That was another clue. What if you removed or just muted everything you associated with stuttering? What if this increased fluency by only 5% but that 5% built a stronger connection with fluency? Then, what if you continued with all this over the next three years? Do you see how stuttering internally could become a faint whisper? And do you see the huge impact it would have on your every day speaking tension? And do you realize the more successfully you speak the more it is reinforced internally? You kind of have to back into fluency, It took me many years.