If someone who is recuperating from a condition - uses a tool to get better (to improve his health). Then, eventually he will stop using this tool, and even though he's not yet at full health, his body will slowly acclimate until he's at full health. This makes sense, right? It can be quite harmful to continue using this tool when it's actually not needed or not useful anymore. **Comparison to stuttering:** Most young children recover from stuttering. Most older people who stutter - recover from stuttering within three years of onset (Yairi, PhD). Here, we can insert the question, as to how it would affect these recovered invididuals if they instead, had still continued excessively relying on tools that are not needed or not useful? **Question:** Would the 'need for tools' - whenever 'these almost recovered individuals' reach a phase where they don't need tools anymore - increase the chance for (1) stuttering remission, or (2) inner conflict/ANS arousal/skin conductance - because they believe (or they have a distorted perception) that they still need to use tools? Your thoughts?