stutter question: what can I do to stop evaluating for my freeze response?
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stutter question: what can I do to stop evaluating for my freeze response? Obviously, when I was around 3 to 8 years old, the **fear of saying my own name** didn’t trigger any kind of approach-avoidance conflict or stuttering. If I had spent that time constantly telling myself to fear it less and basically self-impose to reduce the fear for the freeze response, sure—I might’ve conditioned it to my freeze response. In other words, I might’ve **rewired** how my system evaluates the fear of saying my name—*specifically* for the freeze response. See, it’s not the evaluation of this fear itself that triggers my approach-avoidance conflict or stuttering. —Rather it’s when I evaluate that fear *as a threat* as something that needs a freeze response. So I want to continue evaluating.. because evaluating itself doesn't seem to trigger my stuttering. The problem is evaluating specifically for the freeze response. Which raises the actual question: **How do I stop evaluating stimuli** *(such as fear)* **for triggering a freeze response? In this case, in my experience it's where I evaluate the need to feel sensory pressure and the need to anticipate a malfunction or conflict**—**for the freeze response to kick in!** Let me know what you have in mind, especially if there’s something specific I can do