SELECTIVE MUTISM

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• selective
• mutism
• social
• anxiety
• disorder

[parkerboggs89]

i'm a 22 year old adult that has sort of always been like this. Everything in life you do in life you have to talk to people. I have functioned normally but life has always been pretty miserable. Everyone always thinks your a wierdo and you never feel part of anything so you have long periods of isolated self loathing depression. Drinking cures it temporarily but makes it worse if you rely on it for everything and you do and say things you wouldn't normally

[CynicalBlondeChick]

I look at this little girl and see myself. I wish I could have known sooner. I was way worse than her. It's debilitating.

[daisygirl2002]

your words are positive and gave me some ideas as what to do with my son. He's 4 and has just been diagnosed SM yesterday. He's also multilingual and been living in different countries. Your cure as you say was to meet people. That gives me some relief as he was exposed to constant changes and meeting new people. Thank you for sharing!

[Katelovestheatre]

I still have selective mutism.. I'm 13 am I got it at age 2.

[xXCheckeredRainXx]

I was like this when i was a kid too. I hated how my mom used to make me talk (even though i didnt peep a word xP) to people i hardly knew. Sometimes i would even get in trouble for not talking once we got back home. Im 16 now and getting better :]. keeping up a conversation can be pretty hard but at least i can talk to any person i see (Just as long as they talk to me first of course lol).

[lemon4girl]

im like this but towards familyy members(except my parents and siblings).im going to be 18 soon. i hate being called wierd and stupid.

[JJJUBFFS]

Can people develop this? I'm 13 and for the past 3 years I can talk to adult unless they're my mom, dad, aunt, or uncle.

[wittweric]

What is your email? I'd like to know what made progress with you. I have a 12-year old who has always had this. (She was actually playing with her hair--what she does when the anxiety is really high--on her ultrasound!) Instead of outgrowing it, she's getting worse. She is very shy as well as having SM, and I realize they're different things.

[leidi781]

how can i talk to u in private mode? sorry about my writing. Im a spanish teacher... hope to know from u? and how did u started to talk.

[Fetztu]

Once I got to school I started talking to people who didn't know about my disorder but I was too embarrased to talk to anyone who knew so I didn't talk to my best friend's family until I was 13. I'm 17 now and although I'm still very shy, I am actually able to talk to anyone and I am so glad to have overcome this disorder.

If anyone wants to "talk" about their situation, feel free to send me a message, because I would really like to talk to someona who actually understands. =)

[MrBw1982]

Since maybe 1987....

[RainbowZebra99]

I have selective mutism, and at my first school I had godawful treatment. One teacher tried forcing me into speaking (it never worked >:D) and I had a bunch of doctors stare at me like I was psychopathic and physically disabled. And until two years ago, I had no idea I had SM. I now have an anxiety disorder and depression too. Thanks, mum, for letting me feel like a freak for seven years. -_-