Love those judgment-desensitizing ideas. And the evaluation of yourself... fascinating how you could speak fine in the presence of a dog, but certain people would throw you for a loop. I have to think that resonates with MANY stutterers out there. Pretty brilliant how your self-prescribed therapy didn’t even necessarily need to involve speech and yet it still had a positive impact on your fluency. Reminds me of people who try to vlog (shoot videos of themselves) in public, but the fear of looking stupid around lots of people they don’t know, holds a lot of them back... it’s not a stuttering issue at all, but simply the fear of judgment from strangers. Funny thing is, those vloggers who manage to push through the discomfort and do it anyway, realize that most bystanders are self-interested and don’t think twice about seeing a vlogger shooting videos... it’s pretty much a mental head game that needs to be overcome. It isn’t that dissimilar from the mental battles we all have to navigate through, in one way or another.