>" Why would stuttering make someone feel more comfortable?" Back, when I was a child, both me and my brother stuttered. We talked a lot with each other. Whenever I was very fluent and my brother was in a period of being hard-stuck on a word. Then I could subconsciously feel or notice his jealousy of my fluency. I'm sure you can udnerstand why. I'm also sure what comes next: subconsciously my subconscious views this as an opportunity to further malfunction my appropriateness regulator or "filter" resulting in more stuttering. In a sense this resulted in a similar stutter style as my brother.. every time me and my brother spoke, our subconscious were constantly adapting to each other, and constantly fine-tuning the conditioned mechanism i.e., "filter" of when to allow speech execution in response to "stimuli" (in this case, by perceiving how my brother reacts, his facial expressions, by immersing in his feelings about my fluency, our stutter identity and how we look at how we "should" stutter etc etc) so "more stuttering", whenever someone new is entering the VC in discord. Can in my own vi ewpoint, make the new stutterer "more comfortable".. not because that is the social norm, more like because this is how my subconscious was conditioned during my childhood that I experienced when talking to my brother. >*"This quick re-evaluation concept sounds very fitting but lets think...is it the case in all instances? Could we think of anything where it may not be so."* I agree, in my previous comments I focused on the approach-avoidance conflict. But of course, many other factors influences our stuttering: Hyper-sensitivity, predispositions, risk factors, distorted beliefs, and events that occur immediately prior to a moment of stuttering. *For example: anticipatory anxiety, speaking demands, linguistic complexity, mood affect, energy level, and cognitive functioning, and infelicitous speaking environment, or difficulty on the part of the listener.* Genetics/neurology might lead to error-proneness and even neurogenic stuttering. Often speech therapists label our stuttering as developmental stuttering. But there is no reason to think that people with develomental stuttering also have overlapping neurogenic stuttering (which Per Alm, a researcher, suggests) that in 40% of the cases there may be a slight overlapping with neurogenic stuttering. But not enough that we are consciously aware of them. There is [a post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/1hirk3p/is_there_a_twin_in_your_family_or_circle_where/) about twins (one twin might stutter, while the other twin doesn't stutter). In my opinion: But when I was 4 years of age, fear of saying my name, exhaustion, etc etc didn't trigger my stuttering. So my conclusion is that it's likely that the maladaptive "filter" - through conditioning - that triggers the approach-avoidance conflict - prevents us from stuttering remission, I'd say. Your thoughts?