Sometimes we stutter less when it’s our choice to talk - versus when we're asked a question with very little room for us to wiggle around words we stutter more. Why?

Sometimes we stutter less when it’s our choice to talk - versus when we're asked a question with very little room for us to wiggle around words we stutter more. Why? My reply: I think it's a classic example of approach-avoidance conflict. Let me give an example: some people who stutter do so less in noisy places (like a bar or café), while others stutter less when the environment is quiet. I've also experienced switching.. some days I stutter more in loud environments, other days I stutter more in quieter ones (and instead, stutter more in loud environments). My point is, the same cues (or conditioned stimuli) can either increase or decrease stuttering based on our the subconscious brain LINKS this stimulus to regulating execution of the speech plan. So. if my subconscious interprets a loud environment as “people won't pay much attention to my stuttering or mistakes” there is less fear of judgment. Conversely, if it interprets a quiet environment as “I don't need to repeat myself because people can hear me clearly now” there is also less fear of judgement. In both cases it can then result in LESS strictly regulating the execution of the speech plan (i.e., less stuttering). Often we don't consciously feel this fear of judgment, but the subconscious does react to it without our realization of it. What I mentioned earlier, these are the “reasons” the subconscious uses to decide whether to regulate speech-plan execution more or less strictly. So. We might stutter less when it's our choice to speak. I've experienced that too.. when my subconscious reasons “*Now I can substitute words freely if needed whenever it's my own choice*” the fear of judgment is reduced (again, obviously I am not consciously aware of this; but the subconscious brain reacts to this reduced fear of judgement, so the approach–avoidance mechanism, in this case, doesn't trigger the amygdala. Resulting in loosening regulation of the speech-plan execution. We might stutter more when asked a question. I've experienced the same. my subconscious might think “*Now all eyes are on me; my answer will be judged; what I say carries more weight when someone asks me a question*” (or it can be any other reason; it can even be an imagined reason, it doesn't matter). What matters is that this reason LINKS the cue (i.e., answering a question) with stricter regulation of executing the speech plan. And, again, often we do not even feel this fear of judgement, but our subconscious mind does react to it. A fear of judgment or rejection is an unconditioned stimulus. Which the brain wants to avoid (an unconditioned response). And this interferes with executing the speech plan resulting in the outwards manifestations: the stuttering like disfluencies (in response to this underlying mechanism). https://preview.redd.it/iufttw0yw4tf1.png?width=1414&format=png&auto=webp&s=05b2584a618241fe2a8621f42a5676191de382fb \~\~ Question to everyone: are there other situations where you stutter more or less? and do you have any inkling about what might trigger stuttering under those conditions?