Hi again, First of all, I say thank you for reading all these. It means a lot to me. About your opinion, I'd say that you are saying the exact same thing. Both you and the "scientists" are saying that stutter is spasm in vocal cords. Stutterers would do things like: some move their legs when they stutter and want to continue speaking, some others would spasm their jaw or other parts of their body (i've seen people blinking, shaking their head/neck, clapping hands, etc.). And, the reason for that is that they try to move away the spasms ("Tension" as you put it) from their vocal cords to other places of their body in order to be able to talk. It's a way for them to "escape" the unintentional spasm out of anger. And it works! And the reason it works is simple. Because it breaks the cycle of stuttering. ​ The cycle of stuttering is a sets of events that a stutterer goes through whenever he/she stutters or is in the way of stuttering. It has 9 connected cycles: 1. **Special Situation**. For example: Because I've stuttered while I wanted to talk on the phone with strangers, I now would believe that I always stutter (can't talk) in that special situation. *Or* a Much simpler example would be: some people keep say things like: "I only stutter when I wanna say my name". Or, "I only stop at the middle of the word", Or, "I stutter at these alphabets: s, t, b, l, and sometimes m". *Basically*, all these thoughts are just false beliefs that the mind of the stutter would make for itself to justify him/herself. It has some psychological concept and shit you know. 2. **Disturbed Mind.** when a stutterer faces with the special situation, their mind will be stressed and disturbed. In their mind they be like: "Oh, am I gonna stuttter? what should i do to avoid it? No no no keep your shit together. it's all good. who they thought they are. I got this! Maybe not. Idk damn it!". 3. **Anticipation**. Person would anticipate that at this moment, he/she is gonna stutter. This is kinda close to the previous item. It could be a subset of it. 4. **Secrecy**. The stutter doesn't want other people to know he/she has stutter. therefore, tries their best to keep it a secret. And that, my friend, is why the person decides to surrender to compulsion! That moment when you were to answer a yes/no question where you wanted to say "Yes" but because you couldn't say it, you decided to just say "No" instead. That is because a stutterer does not want anybody to know of their stutter. 5. **Side-Effects**. At this point, these events will have psychological side-effects on the person. Such as: anger, shyness, lying, low self-esteem, etc. 6. **Spasms in Vocal Cords**. The visual stuttering basically. Might include things like: repeating words, complete stop in speaking, etc. But not other spasms or moving muscles other than vocal cords. Those will go next. 7. **Actual Stuttering**. You basically are "stuttering" aren't ya? lol 8. **Spasms and Unnecessary Muscle Tensions in other Body Parts**. As I said, this is done because the person wants to move the spasm from the vocal cords to **other parts of body** so that the vocal cords would be released and therefore he/she can spit out words. Because if the vocal cord is blocked by tension of whatever, even jesus will go speechless. 9. **Hearing or Feeling your Stutter**. When you hear your own stutter, it sucks doesn't it? well that is why there are such machines or whatever that would play noise and sounds in your ear when you start talking :)) But it's the *worst treatment* to choose from. It has other psychological effects on the stutter. ​ Now, interestingly, if you would **REMOVE** any one of these cycle items, and break the cycle, you will not stutter. And, therefore, considering this is the very first fundamental step to start the actual treatment. But note that, the "you will not stutter" **doesn't mean you are treated**. It just means that you won't f up your own mind more than you've already done. Any current/future catastrophes will be avoided. ​ P.S. Again: Now, I wish I could properly credit my resource but it's not in English again. His name is Kambakhsh Farahmandpour. He lives in Iran, runs a clinic, and all of my opinions are from him because they make so much sense to me and a bunch of others. One day his works would be translated I guess, but anyway. He has a YouTube channel if you look up his name on google. But it's all in Persian (Farsi) :))) **ALSO,** IF YOU WERE INTERSETED, JUST ASK ME AND I WOULD JUST TRANSLATE (TRANSCRIBE) HIS VIDEOS FOR YOU AND SEND HERE.