Is there something behind stuttering, something that can be understood, managed, or even overcome. There are so many people who’ve done it like Steve Harvey, Bruce Willis, Ed Sheeran, and many others we don’t even know about. I feel like there’s a key or a ‘secret’ that some people discover!

Is there something behind stuttering, something that can be understood, managed, or even overcome. There are so many people who’ve done it like Steve Harvey, Bruce Willis, Ed Sheeran, and many others we don’t even know about. I feel like there’s a key or a ‘secret’ that some people discover! "Is there something behind stuttering, something that can be understood, managed, or even overcome. There are so many people who’ve done it like Steve Harvey, Bruce Willis, Ed Sheeran, and many others we don’t even know about. I feel like there’s a key or a ‘secret’ that some people discover and others haven’t yet. What do you all think? Let’s brainstorm this together" I'm very interested in everyone's ideas. Here is my idea, simply put — perhaps this could ignite your pumping gears and enable you to think much further beyond what you have been "taught" to believe. let's start with the obvious.. we can't change our genetics. So the best short-term solution would be to investigate and find something in the mental/psychological area: what can we address, and why would that then lead to stuttering remission? I usually reverse-engineer this by repeatedly asking questions. First question: Why can a feared word trigger stuttering? We could give many answers: fear of stuttering, avoiding the probability or anticipation of stuttering, becoming overly cautious in speech onset regulation (too cautious, excessively protective in its regulation). But that's not a complete answer — we haven't asked deeply enough. So the main question is: Why can a fear of stuttering / a desire to avoid stuttering trigger stuttering? (Or why does our subconscious become overprotective and unnecessarily cautious at speech onset regulation?) What underlies these stimuli? They underlie: a fear of social judgements. So: feared word > fear of stuttering because we need to avoid it (excessive high self-imposed expectation to execute speech). Of course, a fear of judgements is ultimately linked to a fear of social rejection (at its root) — an emotion every human is born with. The next main question, by reverse-engineering, is: If we are consciously aware of the feared word, it is ultimately, at the end of the loop, linked to fear of social judgements/rejection. ok. that is kind of obvious now that we have analyzed it. we are then conscious and aware of the fear. But can this also trigger stuttering when we are not consciously aware of that fear? Oddly enough— the fact is: babies may speak more freely in their speech onset regulation. Gradually, as we grow older, we stop saying everything of what resides in our minds. So: by default, we speak more socially — more appropriately, more "perfectly" as kids grow older — and thus speech onset regulation becomes stricter. Makes sense, right? My point is: as a child grows older and speaks (which, as explained, by default involves stricter speech-onset regulation), we may not consciously feel any obvious fear. But — this may run counter to what you’d expect — if we spoke again like a baby, listeners would not appreciate it or might find it inappropriate. Conclusion: "Speaking to someone in a situation" (a conditioned stimulus), by default, is ultimately linked to a fear of social judgements/rejection whenever we are NOT consciously aware of fear (very relevant). Meaning, if we happen to stutter, it could have been triggered without conscious awareness of fear. , a stimulus (such as a word, letter, situation, sensory feedback, or any emotion, feeling, thought or sensation) can, over repeated reinforcement (or sometimes in a single traumatic event), become conditioned — linked to speech-onset regulation — making it either easier or more difficult to say the words/sounds we plan to say. return to the main point regarding a "secret": obviously there is no universal cure (i.e., no technique that works for everyone all the time). But from this perspective, if speech-onset regulation can become excessively strict through conditioning, then the opposite process is de-conditioning / extinction of the conditioned stimuli — weakening the link between stimulus and CR (conditioned response), which in this perspective, is excessive avoidance of the stimulus as a self-imposed expectation for speech execution to proceed, resulting in stricter speech-onset regulation. Attached is an image about why spontaneous de-conditioning (or extinguishing) is likely prevented in individuals where stuttering persist. https://preview.redd.it/yuc2ehzcbkvf1.jpg?width=1415&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54de41a903cb088d0711ee65efc5631627d54b3e \~\~ Anyway — enough about my idea. What’s more relevant are your views: how would you reverse-engineer stuttering using an approach–avoidance framework?