Can’t believe you’re getting hate for speaking the truth. Stammering is 100% tied to obsession with fluency and self confidence. It’s a vicious cycle of trying to be fluent, failing, getting depressed then our speech gets worse and we spiral downwards. We need to move away from trying to be fluent from obsessing with words, to being confident in expressing ourselves, expressing ideas, focus on emotions in language and not the construction of the word. Speech therapy mainly focuses on fluency which is why it fails, it presents strategies to help us try and get out a particular trigger word. This just compounds our obsession with trying to be fluent. If your intent is to be fluent, you will never be fluent. I’m not saying I’m ‘cured’ I still stammer on certain words, particularly names because I can’t change them for another word, but I’m self aware enough to notice how much more fluent I am when I’m confident, when I’m not obsessing with fluency, when I’m more expressive, when my focus is on the overall message I’m trying to communicate and not my ability to say a single word. I’ve been on an upward spiral for the past few years because I’m breaking out of my bad negative habits, I don’t pity myself anymore, I don’t see myself as a victim, I don’t get hung up and obsess over the times when I do stammer. I focus on the positives, focus on being confident.