IYO. What's the difference between (1) speaking on auto-pilot, and (2) speaking by relying on automatic processes? Food for thought towards progress in stuttering remission!
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IYO. What's the difference between (1) speaking on auto-pilot, and (2) speaking by relying on automatic processes? Food for thought towards progress in stuttering remission! I think we can all agree that speaking on auto-pilot ≠ automatic processes. Consider this -if we stop thinking, and start speaking on auto-pilot, our brain will still subconsciously repond to anticipation, fear of social rejection, communication failure (and trigger the approach-avoidance conflict) etc - even if you are not consciously aware of them, resulting in: We may continue speaking when the basal ganglia say no, we may rely on controlled speech, tension, or secondaries. I think it's essentially a phase further away from stuttering remission. **Question**: What do you think is the difference between autopilot speech and speaking by completely relying on automatic processes? Of course, if both stutterers and non-stutterers are sitting quietly without speaking, we're doing nothing. To begin speaking, we must first engage in some action to trigger the automatic processes. If I hadn't pointed this out, all people present here might have believed that speech execution requires no action. But that seems to be far from the truth Let's start the discussion! https://preview.redd.it/2px02dtw2ife1.png?width=595&format=png&auto=webp&s=e7efcb4652f7440eb1854ac13d12aa797e978ada