I think there are a couple of aspects to unpack here. Allow me some lines text, if you please. :)   As I've been trying to say a lot in here, we never actually move from a "perfect sentence in our heads" to a "perfect sentence through our mouths". That's simply not how communication works, for anyone, at any given time. Sometimes, of course, we may experience things happening in the way we imagined them, but that sort of thing is fickle, since we're not really privvy to a "perfect simulation" before handing over a "perfect delivery". We merely _perform_, and whatever happens is what came of it all. Not even actual actors are able to do a 1:1 between intention and performance. That's why they do multiple takes. We can aim at being honest in expression, but we can't have the criteria for succesful communication be the sort of perfection assumed in this flawed model of delivery. - The other thing is that we who stutter do often have a sort of "traumatization", where some words, or rather, the sensations leading up to saying a particular word, will prompt us to react in terror to what feels like an oncoming stutter. This is rather obviously because we know from experience that this sort of thing isn't a very nice thing to have happen. As a result, we tend to shy away from uttering it at all, either by being quiet or by inserting another word that we feel more comfortable with. The former is extremely dissatisfying - and the latter can be a pitfall, once we start losing control of the sentence flow we're trying to perform (especially once more words down the line are substituted). And in this, we lose agency, and often feel like losing a connection to ourselves, so to say - because we don't feel like we're doing what we want to be doing: Speak. - All in all, I think such aspects can be somewhat handled by simply allowing ourselves to stutter more. I know that sound ridiculous at first, because the whole point of handling stutter ought to be getting rid of it, right? Or at least managing it to the point that it doesn't become apparent anymore, right?... we need to hide it, and escape it, and pretend like we're not doing it... And yet, I think we shouldn't attempt to avoid stutter at all costs. In certain situations, sure, we might want to substitute, and in others, we might opt to simply not bother with spending the effort to talk - which are quite common attitudes toward speaking in general, if you think about it: People have different moods and motivations, so we can kinda generalize this theme. This is not to say we're "all the same". We obviously have a challenge before us. But I think our challenge is _also_ one of - dare I say it without sounding like a platitude - _acceptance_: We stutter, sometimes. And it's alright. Because some people stutter and it's just one of things that happen sometimes on this huge planet with all sorts of weird shit going on.   In short: I don't want us to ever deny ourselves the option of making sounds at other people. Let's try to deflate the "trauma" as much as possible, yes?...