You said: "I'm done trying to fix in society's box." \-> Many people like to consider themselves independent thinkers who arrive at their beliefs rationally, but most people simply believe what they do for social acceptance and look for 'objective' reasons later. People feel the need to belong to groups, even in the sciences, and lots of times people will go along with a mainstream belief (like: "I'm ok with stuttering moments" and "that possibility of stuttering is ok") in order not to be marginalized even if they might secretly harbor some repressed doubt (for example if you think "Stuttering is my way of speaking" then you will expect a stutter because you always unconsciously doubt if you will stutter or not). You can ‘know’ a lot of things, but not necessarily agree with them. Test everything in a scientific way.. learn the things.. do experiments and if you get result then believe else ignore. Trust that nothing is true without solid, testable facts with your own stammering and evidence that will stand any scrutiny. Then you don’t have to “believe”, you know. As long as there is no 'cure' for stuttering, we should not believe in: stop trying fluency. Do you understand where I'm getting at? I'm trying to say, if everyone says: "I don't know how to help you remove your stuttering" then we already know not to listen to them for advice about fluency. Do you agree? So, we should find the 'cure' by ourselves with trial and error, by observing our negative thoughts and replacing them with confidence in our fluency. Solution: In order to stop accepting our false and ungrounded belief (like: Stuttering is my way of speaking), we need to add thoughts without our active and cognitive defense mechanisms getting triggered to resist, through subliminal suggestion. Believe through repetition and stop the brain absorbing numerous unquestioned beliefs (like saying in advance "I can't say it fluently so I'm okay with stutter moments"). Refuse to accept the easy answers that we are constantly being force-fed (like: "we cannot speak fluently", because you CAN speak fluently in certain situations, it's just you pressure yourself so much that you don't even try to speak fluently; you doubt your own fluency so much, you don't even try fluency"). Stop focusing on anything related to expecting a stutter. Focus on anything except 'expecting a stutter'. Orient yourself towards something with an aim (like, focus on content, the environment, your inner being). Orient yourself towards the best interpretation you can find, and change those interpretation that invalidate themselves in reality. The more evidence, the more room for believe. Use convincing evidence and compelling arguments (like, when I speak alone I experience fluency & breathing works properly if I don't speak & moving my mouth works properly if I don't breathe out & so it's only my stutter expectation triggered by stresses/pressure/accepting stuttering). Keep asking 'WHY', every time that you stutter: \- Why can't I speak the word fluently? \- Why do I want to feel stutters in my mouth? If you want to learn to believe that you can speak fluently, then show yourself this in behavior, expression, confidence, attitude, mentality and interaction. Acting as if you believe. If you act as if you believe long enough, you do start to believe (because of the mechanism of cognitive dissonance). 80% of kids (statistically) remove their stuttering by believing they can do it by speaking naturally without technique (not by accepting stuttering, expecting stuttering and stop trying fluency). Be curious, be interested in fluency and all its aspects, outcomes, be interested in the new mentality that fluency brings, be interested in the new you because you can finally be yourself and express as your personality, be interested in feeling your mouth fluently and in a relaxed body, be interested in your own talking and others replying to you more than you can handle, which is the result if you speak fluently. If you don't trust your body to speak fluently, then your body doesn't trust you. So if you want to believe "I can speak fluently, I want to speak fluently" then be affected by it. Believe in fluency for emotional reasons. Believe from your heart. Simulating a natural way (speak natural, don't use techniques/onset/tricks/replacing words/avoiding). Stop doubting fluency. Block out any opposing views (like your unconscious doubts "Stuttering is my way of speaking because I can't say the word fluently"). Keep repeating what you want to believe and shut out any voice of opposition. Stop believing that you will stutter. Stop believing what others believe. Stop believing experiences, assumptions and evidence regarding expecting a stutter. If you learn a new habit "speaking without expecting a stutter" then go fully for it. So don't stop half way. Make yourself a condition to continue until it's a habit. Stop making excuses of stutter experiences: \- the fact that I stutter has nothing to do with that I'm a stutterer (because fluency is a part of me) \- the fact that I have a habit to expect a stutter has nothing to do with "Stuttering is my way of speaking" (because fluency is my way of speaking) \- Fluency makes sense right now, stuttering is unneeded right now \- Fluency is normal for everyone (me too) What is your opinion? ". The fear predicts that the stuttering is going to happen, not with the fact that I acknowledge stuttering is a possibility" \-> Which was first, the egg or the chicken? You confirmed in the beginning that as a kid the first day you started with stuttering it's not because of fear. In my opinion it's because you acknowledge stuttering as truth as you say "that possibility is ok", as stuttering is within you, it's a part of you, it's something you do occasionally. " I'm done trying to fix in society's box." \-> I disagree, by following the mainstream thought "there is no cure for stuttering so there is a posibility of stuttering", then repressed stutter expectations are created and you wouldn't realize this until you observe your mind strongly at every stutter and think about 'how/why/etc you stutter'. This is what I have done and I found out my repressed (unconscious) negative thoughts that causes me to expect a stutter. In my opinion if I completely remove the habit of thinking about these negative (expectation) thoughts then I stop expecting a stutter and I experience fluency. "Thinking of fluency caused me much pain and anxiety and I feel so much more calm and free since I stopped chasing it." \-> I agree. Removing conscious stresses and anxiety is important. You can't remove unconscious stresses and anxiety by nature. I mean, you can try to calm your mind but you can't particularly focus on an unconscious stress or anxiety thought so you don't deal with those. Do you agree? Conclusion: so even if you think the stresses are (mostly) gone, the unconscious ones are still rooted and then the question is: how to deal with the stutter root thoughts (unconsciously)? What is your opinion? Conclusion: In my opinion, we stutter because during a stutter, we try to improve our stutter by reinforcing doubt of fluency which makes us look for a word to stutter on in our mind (unconsciously, we don't realize it unless we are observing our mind every time we stutter). We should unlearn this negative habit (false belief). What is your opinion? What can we learn from this to stop expecting a stutter?