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After reading the book, many questions came to my mind. **My questions**: * Do 'anticipation' and 'identity-conflict' and 'cognitive fusion with intrusive thoughts/feelings' belong in the category: phonological speech errors? (or are they another category of speech errors, which category would that be?) * Could the more severe form of stuttering - stem from previously experiencing difficulties integrating words into multi-word speech plans (aka reduced not-yet-matured speech planning ability)? (page 296) * Why do we stutter more in the beginning of a word/phrase? Because just prior to saying a planned phrase, we had more time and we focused more on the inner speech that was able to produce the first sounds, and thus, this should theoretically reduce high demand on the speech system, and it might work like an adaptation effect and a selffulfilling prophecy, such as: "*If my inner speech can do it, then I believe overt execution will also succeed*?") * Are the majority of disfluencies in adults who stutter - due to 'cognitive fusion'-speech errors (rather than appropriateness-errors)? * Is this correct (regarding genes)? * Hypersensitivity to Sensory Feedback is equally prevalent in men and women * Abnormally Slow or Impaired Speech Planning or Speech Motor Control Abilities - are more common in men * Abnormalities in Dopamine Metabolism is more common in me * Is the silent block truly like a sort of transient paralysis? I argue that it's not, because this transient paralysis is likely just the cognitive fusion, which makes it seem like a transient paralysis. It's not actual paralysis, we just experience or view or label it as such so the perceived fused paralysis is merely a secondary symptom rather than the primary symptom? For example, many PWS blame tension, and many PWS also blame the perceived fused paralysis - but blaming it as such doesn't make it a primary symptom by definition (rather a secondary symptom of learned helplessness that results in self-hypnosis 'as if we are stuck on a word', as if we are unable to move forward. So, the paralysis or freezing or whatnot, doesn’t seem to exist, in my opinion) * When does the next book come out? (Because on the last page in the book is written, that after retiring from academic life the author continues writing) (438)