>*"I am 20 and have started with a new speech therapist over the course of the last year and throughout sessions I get reminded continuously fluency should not be the goal and things similar to that."* Most SLPs and therapists focus on 'easier stuttering' or 'stuttering more fluently', I argue because science have not found the cure yet. Very few therapists focus on 'speaking more fluently'. >*"People who have stuttered and maybe are not completely fluent but at a point where you communicate mostly undetectable and your stutter no longer weighs your conscience, what did you do?"* I did [these](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/142tc4i/comment/jn8wran/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) strategies to improve stuttering. >*"Also for context, my stutter is 99% consisting of prolonging words and sounds. Even if it is a consonant or plosive like B,K,T I will prolong it."* If you experience prolonging (or blocking) where your mouth (or other speech movements) won't continue moving to the next sound, then the speech muscles are halted. In other words, we then experience the inability to execute motor movements (behavioral inhibition), which, I hypothesize, is the main primary symptom of stuttering, see the [research model](https://imgur.com/a/Ju7GhID) from a PhD researcher.