>*"is there anything that makes your speech more fluent?"* Yes this: 1. Before I execute the speech plan, I instruct my brain regarding when it should start speaking automatically and spontaneously and effortlessly. The big questoin is, 'how' to instruct? The only answer I have is to do it in the exact way is non-stutterers, do it in the exact way as you would move your legs, arms etc. If we do nothing, then we don't move the arms, and don't move the mouth. So we have to do at least something to move the mouth, which is informing the brain regarding when to start the speech plan.. in other words, we need to send the brain a signal, not a hand signal, not a signal through speaking words out loud, rather by "**thinking the signal**". If it's not done in the exact same way as you would move your hand, it's wrong (in this strategy) 2. While I unlearn literally anything else, specifically that is attempting to start speaking (i.e., attempting to execute the speech plan.. referring to prioritizing controlled processes over automatic processes, which I aim to unlearn) For example, unlearn overthinking, monitoring, and measuring sensory feedback, and evaluating words/situations/stimuli.. but specifically to attempt to start speaking (i.e., to execute the speech plan). In other words, everything I mentioned, such as overthinking, is fine. I mean, non-stutterers do it all the time. As long as we don't do them specifically to execute the speech plan. Because otherwise I will maladaptively condition speech execution or its release threshold (I wrote an explanation in my [Word document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NZuFhWTn2bqCMCpRrtuOS5qBoUp_vqLoH-leG_F1eTY/edit?usp=sharing)) (and a different [PDF](https://drive.google.com/file/d/166fnXYoV0zBqT3btRb9Did_zdkSmOvl-/view?usp=sharing)) But in more detail, my current strategy entails: * use desired accent on larger parts of speech plan (see Bloodstein's article - page 5-6 in [my written document](https://drive.google.com/file/d/17yabjendxTn4i4XFFwVO4btGpJb-2idf/view?usp=sharing)) (Bloodstein's quote could suggest that young CWS link larger chunks of the speech plan to the release threshold. Because their basal ganglia allow them to finish saying the whole-word or whole-phrase (rather than part-word)) * think signal * don't maladaptively condition pain (here I'm referring to the psychosomatic pain occuring when the release threshold rises too high i.e., approach-avoidance conflict) (i.e., the defensive freeze response) * while allowing fear and while not attempting to reduce this fear (which in my own case is fear of psychosomatic pain, and fear that I'm not allowed to speak fluently. Since I have this long-held belief that I'm allowed to stutter, but not allowed to speak fluently since I was a young child and I still rely on this maladaptive/intrusive belief). **Do you have any tips to address this maladaptive belief?**