i will say this path is the best way it your stutter is severe. stuttering has embarrassed me in the past but most of those embarrassing moments come from blocking. sitting there not being able to utter the word i want to say. had i not thought and obsessed over that one word the whole conversation, i probably wouldn’t have stuttered at all, or maybe 1 repetition. This may not be true for everyone, but many of us stutter MORE when we’re thinking extensively of how the person would react to our repetitions and prolongations.