Yes! thank you, finally someone said it. personally, I tend to stutter more around family and friends who know I stutter, while I speak mostly fluently with work colleagues, others, or strangers etc. This [Reddit poll ](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stutter/comments/18y9qbx/megacollection_i_summed_up_all_the_polls_in_this/)shows that about 52% of people stutter more with strangers, while 48% stutter more with family or friends. When you think about it, that’s almost a 50-50 split. I often see comments on this subreddit like, *“If you stutter when you're alone, it must be more neurological,”* but I actually believe it's just EQUALLY as neurological as in cases where people don’t stutter alone. Your example, stuttering severely when alone but much less around others, i think clearly shows that our subconscious is evaluating different contexts (that is, "condnitioned concepts") and reacting to different stimuli, which can trigger our approach-avoidance conflict when we switch from speaking along to a social situation. so: I think the overhyped misconception “it must be more neurological” is a misleading explanation