If kids become more cautious in speech execution (in a maladaptive way) in response to the need to become more respectful, or formal (etc), this might increase their protection mechanism to express themselves, and thus might result in more stuttering. Then I would argue that "the need to speak more formal/respectful" — technically speaking, from the perspective of psychology — is ultimately linked to the FEAR OF social judgements or fear of social rejection. So the need to be more respectful might result in maladaptively refining our defenses to express communication. However, the fear of social rejection derived from a need to speak more respectful/formal.. or speak more perfectly… you could imagine that in most cases this NEED (or limitation on self-expression) does not produce a strong fear experience, felt response, or clear fear sensation. Technically it's ultimately linked to FEAR (yes), but in practical, real-life scenarios the fear is mostly not consciously felt. So: if an SLP says "if you still stutter without feeling fear, it's neurological and completely unpredictable and random," while in reality it might instead be simply due to self-imposed limitations or needs (ultimately linked to FEAR) — but not the kind of strong fear SLPs usually mean — then that diagnosis misses something important. Thus, there might be hundreds of other limitations our subconscious places on speech execution (those similarly linked to FEAR of judgements or social rejection) that we would never sense or realize in the normal way — to the point that SLPs in general would never be able to help clients observe and recognize most of them. Do you agree? If so, should we tell the SLPs about this relevant problem? Could you provide a narrative or piece of text that is clear enough to explain this concept to SLPs? This is VERY IMPORTANT to make progress towards stuttering recovery (or stuttering remission)