What does speech feel like when it feels good? When it feels bad? What does it feel like when we’re struggling? When we’re not struggling? Can we stutter without struggling? Can we be fluent while struggling?
I asked these questions to groups of people who stutter. Their responses coalesced around a similar theme: when speech feels good we aren’t doing anything to control it. In other words, we’re just talking without having to think about it. We aren’t explicitly aware of how we’re talking or if we might stutter. Our focus is on the conversational interaction rather than the mechanics of speaking.