>"My hyper-awareness doesn’t help" According to research, being hyper-sensitive (e.g., being hyper-aware) in itself doesn't create a stutter disorder. However, it could arise if one combines this with learning that '**stuttering is a problem and to be avoided**'. My advice is therefore, to do deep self-discovery about what you are doing/thinking subconsciously that prevents you from (or that reinforcing the avoidance of) having the intention to **breathe out or move articulators**. For example, check with yourself if you are hyper-aware of: * what your stutter sounds like * how you are trying to unblock (e.g., focusing on tensing speech muscles, desensitizing, reframing, secondary behaviors or anticipation) * stutter pressure, fluency pressure, time pressure * overthinking, emotions, over-reacting A good exercise is to change your action of **hyper-awareness** to **passive awareness without reacting** to the things you observe. Because the less you 'react' to hyper-awareness, the more you learn that speech errors are not a problem and not to be avoided. The positive effect is that you stay in the here and now, where you focus on **intention** to breathe out or move articulators over focusing on the future like a desired fluent outcome or stutter anticipation.