Basically what I meant by: we should accept/allow blocks, is I think we should welcome blocks: Remember that they may be protecting us from eliciting undesired responses from our listeners. So, instead of avoiding blocks in response to fear and anticipation, I think that we should completely ignore the 'fear and anticipation' of stuttering and carry on speaking regardless, as though they had never anticipated stuttering, i.e. not slow down, not change the way of speaking, not avoid, and not using easy onset to anticipate stuttering. Simply allow yourself to block – just like little children do when in the early stage of stuttering. The main argument for this is: If we continue avoiding blocks in response to fear and anticipation, we successfully avoid an anticipated unpleasant experience (e.g., primary stuttering) and then the tendency to avoid is reinforced. However, we then never get to discover whether or not that anticipated unpleasant experience would really have occurred (had we not avoided it). Consequently, if we continue to avoid anticipated unpleasant experiences, we will never be able to go beyond the tendency to anticipate those experiences – even though those experiences may no longer pose a threat – or may no longer occur. This is just my own take on it The next main question we should then ask ourselves is: **Should we accept (say: reinforce the mindset) that we will always continue stuttering no matter what?** To answer this in my own words, I believe that some speech therapists advocate this. Though, I do not endorse this. On the contrary, I think that we should not remind ourselves repeatedly that past patterns repeat, and thus, we should not automatically presume that because we blocked on a particular word in a particular speaking situation in the past that we will therefore always block on it in similar situations in the future. Conclusion: So, I think that we should distinguish 3 phases of stuttering: 1. genetic stuttering (in this first phase, some of us have a tendency to make somewhat more speech planning errors than non-stutterers. Speech motor control abilities are somewhat below average, but not sufficiently so for us (or our listener) to be consciously aware that they are impaired). **Difficulty speech planning type stuttering.** I think that we should **accept** genetic stuttering 2. incipient stuttering (Incipient stuttering usually begins a year or more after a child first starts uttering his first words (Bernstein Ratner; Yairi & Ambrose), and after the child has started to become aware of the need to regulate execution). **Difficulty execution type stuttering.** I think that we should NOT **accept** incipient stuttering 3. developed stuttering (the severe form). I think that we should NOT **accept** developed (severe) stuttering (or rather, we should not fight the execution threshold mechanism that prevents the release of speech plans for execution) Although ‘persistent stuttering’ invariably appears to be of the **execution difficulty type stuttering** \- this does not in any way imply that people do not ever recover from it. It is likely that recovery from **execution difficulty stuttering** is the rule, rather than the exception, and that most recovery occurs in early childhood. If this true, it would imply that although the presence of advancing symptoms in young children who stutter is a reliable indicator of the presence of **execution-difficulty stuttering**, it is probably not a strong or reliable predictor of persistence