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Great response. I don't have specific advice (other than the exercises I posted on reddit). For example, the below exercises I found effective for my own stutter disorder. But everyone is different, what works for one doesn't necessarily work for others. *Exercises I found effective:* **Step 1**: - **Step 2**: Acknowledge that I am attempting to avoid perceived errors - specifically to execute the speech plan *(e.g., needing to increase tension or needing to reduce tension)* **Step 3**: Acknowledge that "the need to avoid errors" actually results in perceiving errors - which then triggers the error avoidance mechanism *(e.g., if we self-impose the demand "I need to avoid a lack of confidence specifically to execute the speech plan", the acquisition process (in conditioning) kicks in: Here we start associating 'a lack of confidence' with the release threshold. A lack of confidence is then perceived as an error. Similarly, not yet having increased enough confidence is also perceived as an error.)* **Step 4**: From now onwards, don't try to attempt to avoid perceived errors, in an attempt (1) to manage perceived errors, or (2) to execute the speech plan *- (except for the intervention 'instructing')* **Step 5**: If we would forget our mistakes - we reduce the perception of punishment, whereas if we would remember the good parts, we perceive our actions as more rewarding - leading to a decrease in the execution threshold **Result**: We stop relying on (and we stop justifying) the error-avoidance mechanism (as a **reason**) to regulate WHEN to allow/prevent execution of the speech plan *(leading to temporary fluency that likely results in stuttering remission). In other words, address the poorly fine-tuning of the release threshold. Don't aim for extinguising blocks, or the execution threshold, but rather the poorly fine-tuning of our release threshold*