>When it comes talking to people I believe it's all a mental game. Even though I consciously may think x person is not intimidating what so ever... my unconscious mind may think otherwise. It's really hard to explain how it works because it seems really random from what I've noticed. few things i'd like to comment on here: -it's not _just_ a mental game. like, it's not just "all in your head". or at least, you should expand such a notion to include the context of it all - head, rest of the body, environment, the others. -we don't stutter just because of something being _intimidating_, so that's not the criteria for a stutter. and you don't have an unconscious mind that thinks, but you may have habits that you've yet to get a handle on. -and yeah, as you describe yourself in the bullet points above, it's random. the reason it's hard to explain it in a _simple_ way is that it's not meant to be described in a simple way. it's complex, so your explanation should be complex too ;) >Completely eliminate sugar and caffeine from your diet. i don't think there's any science on this. and anecdotes tend to lose their strength really quickly. you'd have to run double blind studies on yourself. >Occasionally drinking and rolling up a Mary Jane is fine as long as you don't do it every day neither drinking nor smoking needs to be done. the latter in particular has a tendency to mess more with your faculties in the long run, so i'd stay even more away from that one. >No video games. this one makes no sense. are you saying you don't stutter if you don't play video games? >Although these findings are usually consistent... my stuttering is still random sometimes. it might be that you're looking for _the solution_ to your stutter. but i'm afraid it isn't there. or at least, there's no simple ruleset that will eliminate stutter for you, because that's not how stutters work. simply put, we don't know enough about how they work, and there aren't sure-fire "cures". getting to know your stutter is more important than trying to figure out lists that sometimes work and sometimes don't. :)