>The fear of stuttering is in most cases the actual problem. I agree with you. I resonate with your **viewpoint** so much! I think another **viewpoint** is, that I often experience fluency where I'm able to consciously move my speech muscles in spite of perceiving fear that a speech block might happen - if we go from this viewpoint then it suddently changes the actual problem. The old problem was the stimuli that convinces us (that a block might happen). The new problem could then be an unhelpful condition: If a stimulus convinces me, then I stop sending command signals (to the motor movement of speech muscles). **Conclusion**: would it be possible that in the conditioned stimuli, that not 'stimuli convincing me' is the problem, rather the conditional expression? I argue that we don't have to block if anticipation convinces us, whereas we will always block if we do what the conditional expression says. I hope to hear your wise words.