I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and respond. We do share the same passion for understanding stuttering. However, are you trying to say that "auto-pilot speech" like "controlled speech, tension, or secondaries" occurs without the basal ganglia. I hope not. That would be a fundamental misunderstanding of how the basal ganglia and the brain in general work. I don't think that's what you're saying but please clarify. Additionally, you mentioned this at the beginning, "our brain will still subconsciously respond to anticipation, fear of social rejection, communication failure" That's not a claim that you can back up with evidence so i don't know why you say it with such conviction. This is an assumption you're making. Lets flip the script. It is possible that stuttering is what led to worried feelings that you might stutter again and that stuttering led to worried feelings of social rejection, rather than the other way around. Personally, stuttering is something that happens to me rather than me and my psychology causing stuttering, which is what you're trying to insinuate. You're trying to put the blame onto the person that stutters for their stuttering and I don't think that's right, nor do i think that thinking is backed up by the research. The mindset of being too narrow onto the psychological aspects is just that, too narrow.