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From: Ken St. Louis
Date: 09 Oct 2012
Time: 09:33:01 -0500
Remote Name: 157.182.15.121
Hi Ari, I guess I would regard both of your examples as relapse. In one case there is a relapse after a fairly long period of improved fluency, confidence, freedom from fear, etc. In the other case, the relapse occurs quickly. Perkins used to call what you term the "illusion of fluency" with "lucky fluency," which he said is rarely permanent. I have seen a few cases who have improved immediately and never gone back to stuttering much at all. Ken