What adjustable elements underlie feared words, anticipatory fear, and social rejection in the stuttering process, do you think? Important question to make progress towards stuttering remission!
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What adjustable elements underlie feared words, anticipatory fear, and social rejection in the stuttering process, do you think? Important question to make progress towards stuttering remission! First read these [comments](https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=+subreddit%3AStutter+author%3ADrKip&type=comments). Everyone here knows what it’s like to feel that anticipatory fear—whether it’s a specific word, situation, or one of the countless other psychosocial triggers. For example, say you start to fear speaking your own name.. we may then maladaptively fine-tune our speech execution, and so this can trigger stuttering. But here’s the real question: what ties it all together as the common denominator? Don’t all these triggers—feared words, anxiety-inducing situations—end up cycling back to one root stimulus: fear of social rejection? Or is that just surface-level? Could there be an even deeper, tweakable driver (something other than genetics)? Think about it.. some people start stuttering at age 3, others at 4 or 5, but no one’s born scared of certain words. Fear of words is learned, conditioned—completely unlike the unconditioned fear of rejection that hits us without prior learning. And here’s the kicker: both non-stutterers and stutterers deal with these fears—fear of situations, fear of saying their own name, certain people, or even a school environment. But fear by itself doesn't necessarily trigger stuttering - in **people who stutter**: For example, at age 4 you may fear speaking your own name without actually triggering stuttering.. whereas, if you become age 5 or older, such fear will trigger your stuttering. Why? It makes you wonder: are there unspoken rules to how anticipatory fear and fear of rejection lead to maladaptive speech execution tuning? If so, what are those rules i.e., value judgements? A person who stutters could encounter: 1. Anticipatory anxiety of a feared word (conditioned stimulus) 2. leading to a fear of social rejection 3. resulting in maladaptive fine-tuning of speech execution 4. However, the question we can ask is: Can this process or interaction only occur if there are value judgements on a lower level? (such as: "*I should maladaptively execute speech, if anticipatory anxiety leads to fear of social rejection i.e., a value judgement"*) According to wikipedia: [Value judgments ](https://www.google.com/search?q=what+are+value+judgements)are the opinions or decisions we make based on what we believe is good, bad, right, wrong, important, or unimportant. They guide how we act or respond in situations. For example, if you think that it **SHOULD BE** unsafe to execute speech because of either good or bad reasons (it truly doesn't matter), it could be conditioned anticipatory fear, that's a value judgment stopping you from taking the risk. They're essentially the reasons behind why we choose to do or avoid something. You can ask yourself, in your own stutter journey, what are a few reasons why adaptive/healthy speech execution is right or wrong in response to certain conditioned stimuli? In the end I think that all value judgements in our stutter mechanism somehow connect with reasons regarding why we think that we should maladaptively execute speech. Question: What does your own full description of value judgments look like? *(I'm referring to your personal reasons, that likely cover 4 to 6 pages, of why you think that you should maladaptively execute speech i.e., why it's right or wrong to (mal)adaptively fine-tune speech execution in response to certain conditioned stimuli)* So, I’ve laid out a model below. Let’s brainstorm together: what’s truly driving anticipatory fear and fear of rejection, leading to maladaptive fine-tuning of speech execution at a deeper level? This isn’t just theoretical—this is an important question towards progress in stuttering remission! https://preview.redd.it/lymiwzitzoee1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=b2e1d68956c4ecaa9dbf38b4cd977e619f0db8e0 Here is its [PDF version](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CQkRonEzv60YM43qKNd_6EwjLpSfKaNk/view?usp=sharing).