Amazing, great reply!! ! >*"clarification In the first point of your strategy you said speak without thinking that you're fluent, what do you by that? "* Hey! great question. What I mean by “don’t think you’re fluent” is: don’t try to *convince* yourself you’re fluent. Instead give yourself a simple *instruction* to start speaking on your natural rhythm (basically, tell yourself to start speaking but not in words.. so it's easier if you first try it with your hands and legs, instruct your subconscious brain to start moving your legs or arms or hands without convincing yourself that you CAN do it, without relying on confident emotions/thoughts/beliefs, without needing to calm yourself down first, without needing to decrease your stuttering anticipation, tension, pressure, etc). Afterwards, try it now with your speech articulation (i.e., instruct your brain to execute the speech plan.. not by monitoring your articulators, not by believing in confidence or whatnot, not by using distraction techniques such as breathing techniques. No, just tell your mind WHEN it should start speaking (but don't tell it in 'words' obviously). Think of it like giving your brain an operational signal (a short instruction), not an emotional pep talk. The pep talk (“I must believe I’m fluent”) is exactly what the filter mechanism (to execute speech) maladaptive i.e., it results in poorly fine-tuning the release threshold WHEN to release the speech plan for execution. In other words, relying on such NEEDS/expectations results in creating a mechanism that holds back speech i.e., it creates limitations to express communication resulting in totally unnessary stuttering. See it like this.. those NEEDS puts your subconscious in a not-ready state.. it interprets and treats the speech plan as not yet ready to be executed in response to perceived stimuli based on those NEEDS/execptations. If you want to try it, here’s a simple practice you can use right away. **Short practice (3 minutes → repeat often):** 1. Sit or stand where you won’t be interrupted. Pick a short sentence you normally find hard. 2. Notice everything you normally do before you speak (mental scripts, calming attempts, techniques). Write 2–3 of those down. 3. Pick one tiny signal (i.e., the instruction) to replace all of those. This is *just a cue (that tells your brain to start speaking)*, not a belief. 4. On the cue, start AUTOMATICALLY speaking (without any control aka needs) **in your natural rhythm** — don’t invent a new voice or slow it down unnaturally 5. If fear or judgement pops up, let it be — don’t try to push it away. Because if you push it away, it implies that you are RELYING on the NEED: "First I need to decrease fear of judgements - to make it easier to execute speech" which in itself creates a stutter disorder. 6. Keep using the cue and start speaking anyway. 7. After the sentence, note what you did differently. Repeat the same process many times until the cue becomes the trigger for your speech system. (by replacing the cue with those NEEDS/EXPECTATATIONS that your subconscious relies on SPECIFICALLY to execute the speech plan) Maybe this [stutter diagram ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter_remission/comments/1n8vpt3/my_image_attempts_to_show_that_many_people_who/)(I created) visualizes this more clearly