>"I know I am probably just speaking to the choir, maybe it is worth it's own thread and discussion but it is probably controversial and idk if it's worth it here where most just want a cure or be left alone.  It is fine for each individual but some get so aggressive and harass over it." Yes exactly. I think that discussoins about solutions for stuttering is stuck. Because of many misconceptions that stutterers and speech therapists use. One example is: \- Speech therapists might believe that our genetics make us hyper-sensitive. So if stutterers then switch from speaking alone, to another situation where we add one other person. Then this hypersensitivity exarcerabates stuttering. However, I think this misconception is a big problem. Yes sure, I could agree that stutterers might be more hyper-sensitive, no one is debating that. But, if I fear spiders and I see a spider and talk, this combination of hyper-sensitivity and "fear" is not gonna trigger my stuttering, not even a little bit. And the exact same way that when I was 2-3 years of age, or 4 years of age, and I would fear saying my name, it would not trigger my stuttering. Because I haven't developed any value judgements about this stimulus: "fear of saying my own name" yet, and I.. or rather my subconscious, has not yet learned to associate this stimuli with the need to overcompensate for heightened speech execution regulation (for speech execution to continue i.e., a maladaptive internal software that decides when a feared word is allowed to continue being said). Can you resonate with my ideas?