I think you are redefining disfluency and adding this element of avoidance behavior. Last time i checked, most professionals characterize avoidance as a secondary behavior, NOT as one of the three types of disfluencies (i.e. repetition, prolongation, blocking. With all due respect, your previous points and current examples are totally irrelevant to what i am saying. Of course denying a job interview out of fear is not comfortable or proud. Fear is not disfluency either. Walking away with shame is a feeling, not disfluency. Once again I was talking about embracing DISFLUENCY . And you come in trying redefine definitions and fit square pegs into round holes. I agree with all your examples, but they're not connected to my idea that i originally laid out.