you're avoiding facing your fear head on and using a workaround which is avoiding. A lot of PWS do avoid and it only reinforces the fear they have in stuttering. Tricks and workaround dont give you confidence, they take it away. They tell you that you NEED this trick because you cant do it on your own. I agree that "learning not to care" is much easier said that done and is an impractical piece of advice just on it's own. But what i've learned is you can only cheat and use tricks for so long before it catches up with you. I'm not saying you can never use workarounds, but the more reliance you have on them the more power the stronger you make your stuttering fear.