Some of you talk about difficulty with expressing affection; how is that related to not talking at all at school? Do you need to express positive emotion to say your first words at school? Maybe you first have to greet people in a kind way or so. And can you then speak at home because the conversations are less emotional. We didn’t express positive emotions towards each other at home and we greeted each other also in a very subdued way, or not at all. We had no problem with expressing anger towards each other.
But I still consider it implausible that you can’t say a word in certain situations, because you are not able to be kind. Or I never came over it, because, when I did talk, I was taking part in discussions and didn’t express any positive emotion to whomever. I still didn’t dare to talk with people I valued positively. I probably did force myself to talk with people I didn’t like.