I'm glad you're aware that you're not talking about peer reviewed science. Indeed, it is not even science. You're reducing stuttering to maladaptive thought patterns. This is no different to OPs claim that "stuttering is a pattern we developed for ourselves." So yes, you, the authors of the book and OP are contradicting the science. You state "They anticipate and consciously control their word choices, which fluent speskers don't do" Anticipation is due to previous stuttering in the past. Anticipation is not the cause of stuttering. Stuttering is something that happens to us involuntarily rather than any sort of thought pattern you can think of. There is no clash between the neuroscience of stuttering and consciousness. Don't try to reduce stuttering pathophysiology to a broad term like consciousness. It's dishonest. You're actually just hiding behind a big word and implicitly showing how much you really don't know about stuttering research.