I think we may have drifted from the original quote already. Let's look at it again: >Its our own attempt to avoid stuttering that makes everything worse See how this strikes a clear relation between _our own attempt_ and _worse_? Also, read the original post in its entirety again. It's basically a huge _what-if_. Again, I do not think it makes sense to think of stutter this way: * "There is stuttering, but that's just a neurological thing" * "There is all the other behavior associated, but that's just something we're doing to ourselves" * "Stop doing all that other stuff to yourself, then everything will be better" Indeed, this seems to go against what's known about stuttering so far. Or at the very least, it trivializes stutter management (which is not something that everyone will necessarily be able to do easily).