You argue 'fighting compulsion or rituals makes stuttering worse'. \> Situation: we all know or feel when we are about to stutter. Let's call this a trigger. Note: this is not the problem (because we cannot eliminate triggers). A thought is just a thought without judgement or meaning. If I have a trigger thought in my mind: "I will stutter now", then I can just observe this thought without giving meaning to it. \> The problem however comes, when we start responding to the trigger which makes the trigger important enough to do the compulsion. For example, if we attach importance to our trigger by saying: "fighting compulsion or rituals makes stuttering worse". If we have this response/perspective, then we give meaning to the trigger with the result that we expect a stutter and then we do the compulsion (tensing speech muscles) and rituals (ignoring trigger, avoidance, reassurance-seeking)