" I always heard that your stutter reduce when you're confident" "I stutter even when I'm brave" "how to handle?" I always know or feel when I will stutter, before I stutter. Do you also have this stutter anticipation? I stutter because I react to this stutter anticipation. Imagine, I am speaking and I am thinking about a feared letter: "I cannot say the letter P". The problem is not that I think this thought. Because a thought is just a thought without judgement or meaning. The problem is that I react to this thought by engaging to the anticipation (where I am justifying, involving feelings, believing it's true/a fact, identifying this thought is my own opinion) and the result is obviously, that I expect a stutter and then I tense speech muscles. A new study by researchers show that we should not focus on eliminating the thought "I cannot say the letter P". This study also states that reducing fear is not as effective as previously thought. It's far more effective to observe this anticipation and learn to not react to it with the goal of building resilience against the trigger, disconfirming expectancy and detaching importance. If you focus on these 3 goals, then this will result in: 1. imagine, you speak and think of a feared letter "I don't know how to say the letter K" 2. by observing this and not reacting to it, you have learned to not engage to this anticipation. You have learned to not make this anticipation important. Your body and mind did this (with experiential understanding \[instead of intellectual understanding\]) by learning that it's not: * true/ a fact, * scary, * my identity, * has power, a goal or meaning ​ In short, then you have learned to not expect that you will stutter on the letter P, because you have learned to not be bothered by it and you have learned to not form an opinion about your anticipation. Now it's just a thought without judgement or meaning. If you want to read more information about this scientific research, you can google for 'inhibitory learning model'. It's a new study.