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In order to instruct moving speech muscles, stop requiring to reduce: * feedback * perceiving stuttering as a problem or to be avoided * hearing your stuttering * feeling/tracking your speech muscles * feeling strong emotions * feeling body sensations (that we associated to stuttering anticipation) * overthinking * overreacting * unhelpful behaviors, thoughts or feelings * negatively evaluating listeners responses **Argument**: because it's only the blaming attitude that causes a speech block e.g., the unhelpful condition: "*I stop instructing to move speech muscles, if I need or blame above feedback*". I argue, that we can instruct to move speech muscles WITH the intrusive or dysfunctional thoughts e.g.,: "*Stuttering is a problem and to be avoided*". Argument: Because trying to avoid dysfluencies, speech errors or negative listeners responses doesn't necessarily prevent: instructing to move speech muscles. Because it might as well mean that we avoid stuttering in a helpful way. And I argue for this to happen, that we don't necessarily need to stop paying attention or stop caring. Because even if we are bothered by stuttering, excessively pay attention, negatively evaluate, monitor and care about feedback and doing all the wrong things, we are still able to instruct to move speech muscles e.g., if we are not applying this unhelpful condition: "*I stop instructing to move speech muscles, if I need or blame above feedback*". Note, that Normal Fluent Speakers when they try to speak more fluently, e.g., when speaking a new foreign word, this will often lead to more fluency, even if they view dysfluencies or speech errors as a problem and to be avoided. PWS have reduced feedback/anxiety whole their lives however it didn't lead to outgrowing stuttering, in my opinion, because if you reduce feedback/anxiety, then the 'blaming-needing attitude or unhelpful condition' remains. **I request researchers to test this out, for example have 20 people who stutter, go to a therapist or psychiatrist (but not a speech therapist) with the goal of dealing with the unhelpful condition: "*****I stop instructing to move speech muscles, if I need or blame above feedback*****". Will the results (of this research study) lead to PWS being able to instruct to move speech muscles even if they excessively focus on feedback in spite of experiencing intrusive thoughts/feelings (that would normally lead to stop instructing to move speech muscles) and even if they believe that stuttering is a problem and to be avoided? Will the results lead to (partly) outgrowing stuttering as an adult?**