Yep! That is the explanation I also got for the temporary fluent period. Thanks for commenting! I will try my best to explain. The whole point of the post was mainly to outline how stuttering affects the socially anxious stutterer's life and how (and this may be comically obvious) if we could just be fluent that it would actually resolve most issues which I pointed out in my brief fluent experience. I am a firm believer that if given one wish any stutterer would likely wish to be fluent because that is the ultimate goal of most stutterers inevitably atleast once in their lifetime I would have to presume. My point is that many stutterers will go to therapy literally in the philosophical sense of "I will overcome stuttering and become fluent" but yet are usually discouraged when they realize it only helps slightly if at all and so what I'm indirectly saying is that it seems unfair that most stutterers at most points in their life will really wish that there was a full proof speech therapy program that completely rid them of stuttering in the ultimate goal to be fluent but what usually happens is you try therapy for years and realize that the only real attainable goal is the second best ultimate goal which is to 'accept' defeat which I have a hard time with accepting, especially because it is the second best goal to our ultimate one. I get the theory but I just can't fully accept it just yet haha. Yesterday a covert stutterer explained how when he tries to stutter more, on purpose, for the reason of desensitization it makes him a psychological mess and he goes into a vicious cycle of psychological combat with his thoughts and he pretty much explained that he can't do it because it is easier to be covert and be fluent majority of the time as opposed to pretty much unnecessarily stuttering nearly all the time which in my experience is right on the nose. That is my experience with stuttering openly and on purpose too. You asked me "so you don't want to conquer yourself?". So I do want to conquer myself in the sense that I want to become fluent. That has been my goal for years probably. I have tried extremely hard and diligently at stuttering methods which helped but realized that I would never be fluent. As a result, I have come to the point that my philosophy is "I will try my best to speak fluently but if I stutter I will pretty much ignore it and move on" which has helped so maybe I am becoming a little more accepting of stutters but I am mostly concerned with being fluent in most sentences which thankfully I am. Also I conquer myself in many other ways too such as diet, exercise, good sleep schedule, even doing the exposure therapy things in CBT for social anxiety. I do disagree with your 'be mindful in your hometown' hypothesis. My problem with Clichés is just my own personal emotional reaction to it. I am not a fan of virtue signallers at all really because I think it undermines the suffering of the individual and I also just think it's a cheap way to be regarded as virtuous. I just think Clichés are a very weak and non-intellectual way to look at the seriousness of the situation, mostly regarding the suffering individual. Anyways I like that you see it in a positive light and say that it's to the minimum atleast a positive message. Also, I am definitely not suggesting that what I think is even 'correct' it is just a thought that came into my head yesterday and I wondered how people would react to these ideas and so far it seems to be going well :)