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I argue that you (*and every person who stutters*) are stuck in a vicious circle. **Vicious circle**: 1. *Trigger* 1. maintaining eye contact 2. saying a long sentence 3. fear of judgement and how people think of you while stuttering 4. viewing stuttering as a problem and to be fixed and to be avoided 5. distorted perception or fear that your mouth will be too big (catastrophizing) 6. anticipatory fear to look embarrassed or strange 7. perceiving yourself speaking a feared letter feels uncomfortable 2. *Reaction to trigger* 1. freezing (or paralyzing) your speech muscles (resulting in a speech block) This vicious circle is instinctive. I advocate that there are 100 ways to break this stutter cycle, like learning to not care that you stutter because then you stop 'reacting to triggers' which results in not freezing your speech muscles and not blocking anymore. But in reality, you don't need to learn that. Simply because even if you do care that you stutter, it doesn't matter, as long as you prioritize sending command signals to move your mouth then you won't freeze and won't block. So, it's not the question 'how' can I stop freezing (because there are 100s of ways) it's the question 'are you ready and prepared to stop freezing'? Are you mentally ready to outgrow stuttering and are you ready to stop freezing right here and now, **regardless** without excuses (because almost all PWS (1) are not ready for this, (2) blame reasons like neurobiology or sensory feedback, and (3) there lies the issue)?