Growing up, I was taught to be ashamed. I was taught that fluency equaled happiness and acceptance. So I chased fluency into my 30s. Precision Fluency Shaping gave me good fluency for a year, and I was able to orally defend my Masters, but then the fluency inevitably deteriorated, and I was never able to get it back for more than a week or two. With these diminishing returns, and the realization that the Speech Therapy industry will gladly keep taking my money while they know their techniques have no lasting effect with severe stuttering, I decided to give up chasing the fluency dragon. I check in with the literature from time to time hoping for some revolutionary discovery or understanding, but I don’t see many new treatments coming available. I once asked a SLP why stuttering seems like such a mystery even to those “trained” in the field, and the answer was that real success with stuttering therapy is so rare that they de-emphasize courses that focus on the disorder, and other speech issues with better treatment outcomes are pushed.