>I know that causing tension by forcing it out isn't the correct way to do it, but I cannot help it. I can't even answer a simple "how are you" or say "have a good day". Someone with this type of stutter please help me What works for this person doesn't necessarily work for other people. I am doing this trial and error strategy. Hoping that it - or at least partially - could help you to unlearn 'tension' and re-learn helpful behaviors: Analyzing: * **Recognizing your maladaptive behaviors before and during a speech block**: for me it is 1. planning ahead - or visualizing - that I will stop moving my articulators (which causes a speech block) 2. focusing on secondaries like tension, substituting words, overthinking etc 3. doing unhelpful interventions like temporarily relieving myself from anxiety (which doesn't deal with the neurological issue) and contrary to what laypeople think, by doing this you are telling your instinct that stuttering is a problem (which creates complicated behavior) * **Recognizing the negative effect of above maladaptive behaviors**: for me that is, by focusing on unhelpful behaviors I stop focusing on choosing to move articulators (which is what non-stutterers do) - because research states that one neuron is needed to activate a series of activations in the motor cortex to move our articulator muscles (which is what non-stutterers do unlike PWS) * **Recognizing the negative effect of focusing on breathing out**: for me calmly breathing out was not a compulsive issue. So, by focusing on breathing out, the negative effect was that I stop choosing to move articulators (which causes a speech block) * **Recognizing helpful behaviors that non-stutterers do**: that is focusing on intention to move tongue and jaw, prosody, not unhelpfully responding to stuttering Strategy: 1. Focus on the intention to move articulators while reinforcing effortless natural direct speech 2. While also observing maladaptive behaviorial, emotional and linguistical aspects: for me that is, if I focus on secondaries then I let this thought be, in my mind (don't remove it) while moving my attention to number 1 (because PWS stutter if they replace number 1 with secondaries) 3. While always when I speak - I observe anticipatory fear 4. While not linking self-esteem to my speech performance Goal of strategy: The goal is to make it a habit to not pay attention to stuttering which leads to the positive effects: 1. I don't try to say it again if I stutter 2. I don't try to do interventions like slowing down and I don't tell myself to take a deep breath if I stutter 3. I encourage myself to speak as much as possible 4. I won't get the feeling that stuttering is wrong or that I need something to change 5. I won't ask myself too much questions at the same moment or ask myself too much open questions, but instead of this, closed questions 6. I imitate how my listeners speak so that I normalize fluency (which is what non-stutterers do) 7. I build confidence and discipline 8. I decrease environmental stress 9. I see myself in the best way possible without feeling the need to do symptoms (which is what stutterers do to cope with stuttering and temporarily relieve themselves from distress) 10. I break the vicious stutter cycle Because all these points could be triggers for stuttering.