Great post!! You said*: "I stutter. If someone says it fluently though, I can suddenly also say it fluently"* Actually.. in stutter research it's what is called "shadowing" *(shadowing effect is when a person who stutters becomes more fluent by immediately repeating or “shadowing” the speech of another speaker, or hearing the target word spoken just before they attempt it)*. Perhaps shadowing works, because of less *social pressure* (resulting in suppressed [error monitoring](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&scisbd=1&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=+A+Predictive+Processing+Model+of+Stuttering+and+Cluttering+Behavior&btnG=), reduced PERCEIVED salience of speech-related triggers, reduced expectancy effect & reduced consistency effect, so that it temporarily overrides the conditioning between freezing and inner conflict) there are other stutter effects too: * Carryover effect: fluency might persist shortly after shadowing *(Prins & Hubbard, 1990)* * Consistency effect: stuttering occurs on the same words on repeated attempts like feared words *(Wischner, 1952)* * Adaptation effect: fluency occurs over successive readings of the same passage *(Bloodstein, 1972)* * Expectancy effect: stuttering occurs based on their expectation that they will stutter on a word *(Robbins, 1971)* * Adjacency effect: after feared words are removed, stuttering shifts to nearby (adjacent) words *(Johnson, 1950)* * Relapse effect: if a passage is not read for a while, stuttering returns to initial levels *(Peins, 1961)* * Distraction effect: fluency occurs when attention is diverted from speech *(Bloodstein, 1972)*