>One thing is for sure. If you believe that stuttering is a "genetic hardware problem" then your own believe will close the door for your fluency. Yes absolutely! I wish more people would realize that justifying or allowing maladaptive neurological pathways (e.g., by closing the door for fluency), will likely make it harder to achieve subconscious fluency. >because every cause is unique to the person Yes, I also think, like you, that there are multiple causes and even different types of stuttering. We are all in different phases in our stuttering journey, having developed different maladaptive behaviors and thought patterns, different reactions to the loss of control, different tolerance levels for triggers, different believes and experiences, different priorities and fluency goals. >But it can be curable if one adresses the correct issues influencing our particular blocking behaviour. Exactly! [Steelspy](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/18a04hi/the_reason_that_nothing_has_yet_been_found_or/kbvmq7u/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) states: *"I don't think it's fair to use the experience of people in this subreddit as a representation of speech therapy. As I indicated above, I suspect most people who achieved fluency through therapy aren't frequenting this sub. We're likely running up against a type of survivorship bias when we examine the experiences of the people here. I agree that it's devastating to seek treatment and not make any progress. But I hate seeing people give up. Or tell people that it's hopeless (not talking about OP. It's just a frequent sentiment in this sub.)"* I think that Steelspy made a good point, that the recovered individuals (whether through therapy, self-change or other intervention) are (almost) never showing themselves in this subreddit likely because they don't perceive themselves as stutterers anymore, or they already notice that the stuttering community has shut down the door for subconscious fluency. >" The first step would be to dissolve that limiting belief. " Yes, if we are not self-allowing fluency, then we just continue fighting against the flow of water, at a subconscious level reinforcing the stutter cycle in my opinion