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What I mean by behavior based is that if no one in your family stutters, and you’re the only one who does so, *chances are you can fix your blocks due to it being related to anxiety/habitual.* I thought I ‘stuttered’ **but it turned out I was really nervous and my brain hard-wired my body to tense up and lock my vocal cords when I wanted to speak, hence leading to the speech block.** For me, my stuttering was based in anxiety and the “flight or fight” response. Whenever I would have to talk to someone, my heart rate would jump so high and my throat would close. My body perceived talking to someone as a ‘threat’, but when it reality it wasn’t. So, my body was acting abnormally to something that is quite normal. You would have these physiological responses like anxiety and your throat closing because somewhere down the road, *you accidentally hard-wired your brain with those physiological responses and connected them to having conversations with people,* and that’s a bad neural connection to have. So, if you have have repetitions or if you’re the only person in your family who stutters or blocks, **chances are you can un-wire those behavioral traits your brain associated with speaking.** My blocks or stuttering was 100% how my body responded to social situations because my brain had a negative experience speaking years ago and made that neural pathway. So, I unwired that pathway and lost those bodily responses and now I’m 100% fluent now. It’s possible.