! Thanks for such an insightful and thought provoking response. Okay, when I say it “goes away for two weeks”, I mean I am pretty much stutter free. I would say around 90-95% fluent, and around 5-10% of a stutter still, but it’s barely noticeable and just seems like how the average person without a stutter speaks. When the stutter comes back again after a couple of weeks of being pretty much stutter free, I often tell myself something along the lines of “ the stutters back again “. I feel like this is not a good thing to do and it acts as a self fulfilling prophecy, the negative thoughts surrounding the stutter make the stutter worse that what it would have been without the negative thoughts. I’ve read a few posts from people stating that their stutter comes back when they haven’t been sleeping well, and I feel like part of the sentiment is true with me. I didn’t sleep much over the weekend, and my stutter came back on Monday after around two weeks of being 90-95% fluent in my speech. I’ve learnt to take the good with the bad, but also to control my thoughts more when the stutter comes back. To be more mentally positive, rather than having the pessimistic non-chalant approach of “ ahh okay, my stutters back again, there’s not much I can do about it , so just wait a few more days till it goes away again “which is similar to the mentality of one of the redditors who commented on this post by stating “ easy come , easy go “. I love your analogy of the maze btw, very true. A trick that I’ve found to help reduce my stutter, is speaking and smiling at the same time allows you to somewhat be more positive whilst speaking, thus reducing your stutter. Anyways, thanks again for your response!