Seasoned stutterers avoiding helpful techniques

Seasoned stutterers avoiding helpful techniques From time to time I meet my fellow folks who stutter. They are bright people with various but decent experience in speech therapy and the helpful techniques that are offered there. Now I know that these techniques won't make you forget you ever stuttered, especially with how the approach to stuttering has been shifting from fixing your stutter to just accepting it. But they continue to be a source of help in the direst of situations when you feel like you're knee deep in mud and can't take one tiny step ahead. Even still, when I talk to these friends of mine and they struggle really really badly to cough up a few sentences with seemingly not trying to employ any simple technique whatsoever to ease their communication I can't help but wonder why. At the same time I feel like confronting them for it would be out of place. What do you think? For the record I do stutter myself and don't use techniques all the time but it's more due to the fact that I rarely get stuck to the extent of trying to get the word out for like 10+ seconds, my stutter is of a slightly different kind I guess.