Nevermind how it's called, here's what you do: 1. Never, **ever**, try to force the word out. I know how impossible that feels, but if you get in the habit of forcing the word out, you **will** develop a full-blown stutter. 2. When you feel the block, or feel that a block is coming, take a deep breath and clear your mind. Don't worry about "taking too long to give a response." If you're afraid a sudden long pause will look weird, get in the habit of speaking slower and with plenty of pauses, so an "emergency" pause won't look out of place. It also makes it easier to understand what you're saying and it gives you presence, to boot. And people *never* think it's taking as long as you feel it is. Get used to it, it will transform your life. Also, meditation will help with this. 3. DO NOT anticipate what you're going to say. Don't rehearse it in your head before you say it, don't "look ahead" in search of problematic words, etc. Think about what you are going to say like a "normal" person would: to evaluate your thoughts, not your speech. If you are going to change words, do it because it makes the sentence clearer, not because it makes it easier to speak. If you avoid words starting with "p" because you block on them, and change it often to words starting with "s" instead, soon you'll be blocking on the "s" also, and eventually every letter will be tainted. So forget about that, "speak in the moment." 4. Don't obsess about any of this. Keep these principles in your mind and just let them work themselves into your life. **No one** has perfect diction, and most people never worry about it. I believe what made us in here into people who stutter is that we do, so a good place to start is to not worry about it. You are particularly lucky, in that you do not have a solid stutter, so you get to relax even more.