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This is an experience report from our family from the summer of 2022. In the boy's school, every child in the first grade was supposed to prepare and give a presentation. For him, this was a huge challenge in the new class and he worried about it slightly for weeks or even months and kept putting it off.

During the school year, they had worked on something in a small group and then were supposed to present it to the group at the end of the week. Of course, he was very excited about this as well, since he had never done this before. The presentation of the group work did not go satisfactorily for him, but at least he was very relieved when it was over. The following day he got a cough and sore throat. It was the conflict resolved phase of the SBS of the laryngeal mucosa with which he reacted to the (announcement or execution) of the situation in which he was to speak in front of the rest of the class, which he perceived as a territorial fear conflict.

Even though he had now overcome this first situation in front of the class, he was still at least as excited about the presentation he was still to give alone this school year.
In consultation with the teacher, we found a good strategy to help him prepare, so that he became more and more confident and several rehearsal runs also went very well. Nevertheless, we were pretty sure that he had the same SBS of the laryngeal mucosa active again, so we made the prediction to friends and him that he would react again with coughing and sore throat as part of the conflict-resolved phase following the presentation.

The presentation was on a Thursday. Since we strongly anticipated that he would not be able to attend school the following Friday due to the symptoms, we were already organizing potential substitute care accordingly.
And that's exactly how it happened: The presentation went great and on Friday he woke up with a cough and sore throat. A few nights this was at least so strong that he woke up several times during the night and wanted tea/honey for relief, afterwards it got better quickly.
Now he is looking forward to the presentation in the next school year 😉 We are curious if there will be a very small recurrence there as well or if this positive experience has taken care of it now.

Update February 2023:

The next school year's presentation went without symptoms, as it no longer came as a surprise and it didn't stress him as much - although it still wasn't easy. However, there was a situation when the children were to present certain learning materials for the parents. He himself was not assigned. One day before, however, another child was sick, so he suddenly had to step in, which again caught him by surprise and activated the SBS again: he had never presented anything in front of the parents before. We suspected a renewed activation of the SBS. When the demonstration went well the next day, this was the renewed solution and the sore throats of the conflict-resolved phase also started again during the day. They lasted for about a day - so a nice validation and confirmation of the analysis from last year!