Comment #3: >*"Sometimes I stutter more when alone.***"** You mentioned stuttering more when you're alone—I can totally relate. As a child, I did too. But over time, I practiced fluency while alone and gave myself permission to believe “I don’t stutter when I’m by myself” (i.e., a positive value judgement). In hindsight, at this moment, I highly discourage using such positive value judgements. Right now I think we should simply execute speech without relying on any value judgements, and instead, put our faith completely in the automatic processes. Because, remember, we do not need to "believe we can speak fluently" in order to kick-start the automatic processes; it's redundant and only adds unnecessary cognitive load, and impairs cognitive functioning, and increases "control", and increases the chance for a relapse (even after stuttering remission occurs) etc etc. That's just my own take on it To continue about my transformation from stuttering alone, to speaking fluently when alone.. at that time, even then, things like recording a WhatsApp voice message when being alone, could bring the stutter back somtimes—based on the value judgements, such as "*Believing that sending a Whatsapp message means others will hear me eventually (even if it's not right now at this moment) - while I'm immersing myself in the listeners who will hear my Whatsapp recorded voice in the future*". let's label this "stutter pressure": this can result in believing that others will judge me in the future. However, again, I highly discourage reducing the feeling of being judged. Because again, we would only need to reduce it if we relied on positive and negative value judgements (and associated these with the "malfunctioned filter" for speech executoin to proceed), which is what created the stutter order to begin with. So by listening to our maladaptive demands (such as, reducing feeling judged) is basically to rely on the "malfunctioned filter". Also these are just my own opinions and thoughts, and I could be completely wrong.. I'm justing sharing them and hopefully you could correct me. Im open for new insights and viewpoints.