I didn't say stutterers will always stutter. I said we'll always *be* stutterers. Our disfluency will always be there. An acceptance of this is vital to improving our fluency. Stutterers who have achieved a high degree of fluency aren't hiding their stutters, they're navigating their disfluency more efficiently. In fact, they're stuttering *well*. They encounter a block and are able to move with the current in such a way that they manage fluent speech. The most outwardly obvious aspect of a stutter is caused by us fighting against it. Fluent stutterers have trained themselves out of doing that. It's awesome. But they didn't get that way by trying to hide or get rid of their stutters--that's still fighting against it. They got that way by learning how to work with the rhythm their brain's linguistic processing system has given them. It doesn't mean they're cured of their stutter or that they're not still experiencing blocks. They've just learned to stutter *better*.