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Yes, I would. Can you please send it to me? Also, I was thinking about how we talked about desensitization to stuttering. And actually I do believe that stuttering on purpose can desensitize the experience of stuttering. When I first began stuttering on purpose, I was afraid to even do two-repetition stutters. Now I can do 4-repetition stutters with almost no fear. And sometimes do 5 or even six repetition-stutters. The trick is to choose non-feared words to stutter on purpose with. In that case, it won’t cause as much emotional stress because it’s not an actual stutter. You are just desensitizing yourself to the idea of other people knowing you stutter. In the Dave McGuire Program we call this “deliberate disfluency.” So basically you choose words that you wouldn’t usually stutter on and fake a stutter. Then tell the listener you stutter after you’ve done a few long ones and they’ve most likely recognized. The McGuire Program takes the idea that self-realization cures stuttering. So being willing to show who you are on the inside (someone that thinks a lot about and has a fear of stuttering) by stuttering intentionally outwardly and then telling the listener that we stutter so our internal experience comes out to the open in a way that we are vulnerable. Vulnerable because we act out what is happening internally, and risk others putting us down, which they likely won’t.