" a stutterer thinks: word-scan-word-scan-word-scan-word-scan-word-scan" \> so, you are saying that a stutterer scans for a stutter. In think you are right on the money, stutterers know or feel a stutter coming before they stutter because this happens: \- they ask themselves: Will I stutter now on this letter? Or can I pass it or unblock? If so, how? Do I need more help like a technique or onset? (all these questions is 'scanning words' on itself) \- our instinct constantly force-feeds us with the thought 'I will stutter now'. This is not our thought (it's our instinct's thought), because we didn't choose to think this so it's foolish to try to go against it, because the harder we try (like using techniques or onset), the harder our instinct will pull back. It's not about pulling, because then you are still reacting to the trigger and making the trigger important (attaching importance). It's about detaching importance, by letting go of the rope and stop pulling (by observing our trigger and learning to not react to it). \- Take this example, we stutter because of perceived stresses. Our instinct makes these stresses like 'I will stutter now'. If we learn to not react to it and learn that this thought isn't our choice and doesn't have powers, then we stop perceiving these stresses as 'dangerous' or 'fearful' and the result is disconfirming expectancy. \- In short, I'd say our real stutter mentality is that we react to our stutter anticipation (causing us to know of feel a stutter coming). We react to it by: 1. justifying compulsion, 2. fear of compulsion, 3. conditions to stop compulsion (basically, a condition to have a fight or flight response) and 4. condition to not learn from mistakes (experiential understanding and body intelligence) so you are basically limiting your ideology into maintaining your old habit