I like the theory, it provides interesting explanations for why we stutter more than the world population, but I wondered if this theory was verified, if it could not therefore offer a way to deconstruct stuttering : What I took from the theory - maybe I'm wrong and I misread it - is that we stutterers have developed a sort of "phobia" of public speaking, which our brains handle in the wrong way by forcing the speech. But then, does that mean that this phobia can be deconditioned? For example, arachnophobes deconstruct their phobie by familiarizing themselves with a drawing of a spider, then a photo, then a real one. So if we familiarize ourselves to speak in a situation where stuttering is not very present, like alone, or when singing or acting, and then little by little we increase the difficulty of the task by training ourselves to speak in increasingly stressful situations, like speaking into a Dictaphone, then making voice messages, then calls, etc., could this therefore get us used to speaking without making the counterproductive efforts we usually do? I know there would still be neurological differences and the threshold that would prevent having typical fluency, but it could already offer some interesting help imo