When we stutter on our name because we see it as important to say. We feel like we cannot move forward to continue saying the sound (to say our name).. we feel as if we are stuck on a word. We blame negative feelings, blame anticipation (future), or we blame a loss of control (here and now), or past negative experience (the past), we blame ourselves for not using techniques good enough (reassurance-seeking). All these distorted beliefs reinforce cognitive fusion. If you don't know what this mean, you can read it in google: https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+cognitive+dissonance+cognitive+fusion. We reinforce anticipatory struggle: the belief that speech is difficult. Then we might respond with non-functional requirements vs functional requirements to move the speech muscles which keeps us in a vicious circle. Here is a good analogy: A hypnotist asks someone in a trance to lift a glass of water off the table after giving them the suggestion that the glass weighs a ton. You can see the person struggling and straining, attempting to lift the glass, but he cannot. While the mind of the hypnotized person is activating the muscles involved in lifting, it is also simultaneously activating muscles that resist the lift, which reflects his belief that the glass is extremely heavy (think anticipatory struggle-heavy). His subconscious mind is orchestrating this very complex set of activities that creates a reality coherent with his belief. Both sets of muscles are working all out to handle this glass, like an isometric exercise, so there is no net effect on the glass. In this way whatever beliefs we acquire will shape our neurobiology. Conclusion: So, I think cognitive fusion (as explained above) and labeling mild error prone speech - as a stutter disorder - is a form of self-hypnotizing, just like above example with the hypnotist (making it harder to achieve a state of subconscious remission). If we consider speech therapy, do clinicians actually reinforce the stutter disorder in this very viewpoint? Does the definition 'stutterer' (the way that clinicians consider it) even exist, or are we simply going from an incorrect assumption? Food for thought. I think - instead of putting our head in the ground - we shouldn't ignore such important discussions