>they are told "we are stutterers and this and this is how a stutterer thinks and acts". I wasn't told anything of the sort. >why do you think that is that there is no leg stutter but there is a mouth stutter? Is it only because the way we learned of what a stutterer entails? No, I don't understand this angle at all, at least not in a way that I can relate to my own experience. I never "learned what a stutterer entails" beyond the fact that sometimes I get stuck on words a lot has a name. It doesn't entail anything else for me. Are you going for an "it's all in your head" angle where if we just stop "thinking like stutterers" we'll stop stuttering? Hard no from me. I can be speaking basically perfectly all day and then not be able to speak a coherent sentence over dinner without having thought "gee I wonder if I'll stutter at dinner tonight." If I could think my way out of this I would be fluent all the time by now.