I think the experience of stuttering can be interpreted in many ways. So, that's probably what you're experiencing - the potential for interpretation, and your line of thinking about it. What I mean to say is - no, it's not the case that we stutter because we're "missing beats". Stutter often manifests in what could be called "rhythmical patterns", but to be fair, lots of things manifest like that. It doesn't mean there's a certain way we need to hook onto it, in order to succeed at it. On top of that, if people start leaning into those (perceived) rhythms, they can develop habits from it, that serve no real purpose except exacerbating the extent of the stutter. So, if my word is worth anything: Don't lean into this rhythm idea. We may not know exactly how stutter works yet, but we still do know some of the things that can't be said about it, and that some suggestions are too far from the reality of it all. There are ways in speech therapy where you control the onset of stuttering more, which might be called "rhythmical", but as I said, lots of things can be interpreted that way. It's not the same as saying there's an actual rhythm at play, and that we need to figure it out. We just need to figure out our stutter on its own, so to say. :)