Thanks for sharing this here. People should read your post and topic. I had this realization a few years ago when I decided to let myself "authentically stutter" without trying to mask it. I decided to stutter freely in front of my wife, and I had zero blocks. Yes, I did repeat, but zero blocks. I came to the realization that the blocking was due to me fighting the actual stutter - the repeating of words/letters. I only block, when I don't allow myself to stutter. And when I don't allow myself to stutter, it's due to fear of what others might think or say. When I started to stutter openly and announce to people I stutter (when entering a conversation) a lot of fear dropped and a lot less stress around it. Helps tremendously. I think this is the case for pretty much everybody suffering from "blocks." I personally think it's all rooted in fear, in combination with it having become a speech-pattern from early on in someone's life - just like how some people can't stop saying "like," or like an accent.