**"speech needs working on"** \-> I agree, if you believe that you can't stop compulsion BECAUSE (reason) 1) you need a technique, 2) it needs to improve, or 3) you need more help then you ATTACH IMPORTANCE (you make the trigger REAL) which causes a stutter expectation. The goal is not ATTACHING importance. The goal is detaching importance by not engaging to the trigger. **"rewarding fluency reinforces stutter"** \-> I agree, we stutter when we react to the trigger by, for example, 'rewarding fluency'. It's not about reacting to the trigger, it's about NOT reacting to the trigger. **"natural spontaneous flow of speech"** \-> Yes! Basically, even as simple as relaxing your mouth when you feel a stutter coming, or speaking more slowly maintains stuttering in the form of 'reacting to the trigger'. Remember, anticipating a stutter is reacting to a trigger in order to prepapre for a stutter to do easy onset or speaking slowly. Also, by using these techniques, your mind and body subconsciously learns that you cannot speak fluently without speaking slowly/onset which is attaching importance to the trigger. So by using techniques in this way, you make the trigger REAL. **" until you stop caring so much about what others think of you."** \-> how do you suggest to achieve this? How stop caring?