>*"Where's the choice for 'just accepting my stutter as part of who I am and celebrating my stutter as part of my individuality?'"* I agree with you. We should use acceptance and letting go. While the current poll only discusses the stutter cycle, I believe that accepting and letting go, have many positive effects in relation to the **stutter cycle**: * Acceptance can lead to acknowledging the stutter cycle in order to passively observe unhelpful triggers, reactions and corrections. This can then result in building tolerance, detaching importance and disconfirming expectancy * Acceptance can lead to acknowledging how we respond to and perceive stuttering. This can then result in 'letting go' of negative coping mechanisms, secondaries and avoidance-behaviors * Acceptance can lead to being okay with random, meaningless, intrusive thoughts and feelings from anticipatory fear, like "*I will probably stutter, others will perceive me negatively and stuttering might become a problem*". This can lead to not caring anymore about anticipatory anxiety and then we learn that such anticipatory intrusive thoughts and feelings are not dangerous, true and cannot control our speaking actions, and then we pay less attention to stuttering, depend less on [sensory feedback](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/129z9q3/tips_to_improve_stuttering_do_we_notice_too_many/) and immerse ourselves less in intrusive thoughts and feelings * Acceptance can lead to adopting helpful beliefs/attitudes, like '*tolerating speech errors without needing to correct them*' and '*speaking with anticipation, speaking with fear, speaking with tension regardless*' without holding back speech. PhD researchers state that people who stutter worry too much about speech errors in the [phonological encoding](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/11fn406/poll_do_you_understand_this_one_of_the_most/). So, if we experience anticipation, fear or tension, we hold back speech (and avoid fluency laws). In other words, we stutter because we don't accept (acknowledge, tolerate and allow) speech errors. This then leads to adopting unhelpful corrections maintaining the stutter disorder. I think that acceptance is important to learn that speech errors in the phonological encoding are not dangerous, a problem and to be avoided and then, we wouldn't need to correct these errors and thus we likely wouldn't develop a stutter disorder. These new [research](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul-Brocklehurst) studies explain this in more detail **Conclusion**: I argue that acceptance and letting go is effective to break the stutter cycle.