What is troubling is when the stuttering community downplays this fascinating truism. Some write this off as "lucky fluency" or that it "doesn't count." I could 'pretend call' someone with 100% fluency. When they answered I had silent blocks and got hung up on (I was pre-internet). I could read a book aloud with 100% fluency but ONE listener provoked blocks and multiple listeners complete sh\*t show. Guess who always went to the bathroom to avoid reading? If my speech system works like a Swiss watch alone but I completely fall apart with listeners, am I broken? Or, is my state anxiety/fear/panic the culprit? This is a brilliant article by Starkweather and Givens: [https://www.stuttering-specialist.com/post/stuttering-as-a-variant-of-post-traumatic-stress-disorder](https://www.stuttering-specialist.com/post/stuttering-as-a-variant-of-post-traumatic-stress-disorder)