" most the tension is coming from the fear of being judged, not the fear to stutter" Common misconception that fear is the dominant part of reacting to the trigger. In my experience it's not, just the fact that stutterers truly believe they can't stop compulsion (justify compulsion, reduce trust in ability) and label themselves as stutterer is already a stronger reaction to the trigger than fear in itself. In my personal list of 'reacting to trigger', fear is only a small part of the bigger picture that maintains the stutter habit which causes a stutter expectation. Don't even get me started about how we justify predicting a stutter coming in order to prepare for it (onset, speaking slowly, waiting it out, changing how to say it, avoiding etc etc) is a stronger reactoin to the trigger than how fear plays a role in the expectation of stuttering and habit forming. Identifying with trigger is much larger than our fear in regards to reacting to trigger.