> "If human interaction does not elicit fear and anxiety, your brain doesn't need to utilize compensatory behaviors" I agree absolutely! Did you know that positive triggers lead to an anticipation of a stutter - more than fear? If we stutter, we don't always fear, but we do always have one of these positive triggers: * "I'm a stutterer" [defining or labeling oneself] (positive connotation) * "I love to stutter, I want to choose to stutter, I give up on stopping compulsion" [justifying compulsion] * "I'm proud that I spoke 1 sentence without compulsion [black white thinking 'as if that's not one's normal speech'] * "Stuttering is my way of speaking" [identifying oneself with trigger] Above positive triggers lead to an anticipation of a stutter. Notice how above POSITIVE triggers are without 'fear'. We have told ourselves for years that we will stutter, then our **stutter** perspective/response became normal (for us) as if above positive triggers are our true intentions. But in reality, during our stuttering development, we initiated story-telling to create a story about those positive triggers to convince us to give up on stopping compulsion and **to relieve ourselves from anticipatory anxiety by doing compulsion and secondary behavior**.