Ok, hope this is the right place to post this, because it's a social anxiety related disorder I believe.

When I was a kid, social services told me I had selective mutism, because I was unable to talk in certain situations.

Are you supposed to "grow" out of it? 9 years later from when social services told me I had it, I still freeze up and can't talk sometimes. It's not too bad, I can talk at work, which is the important thing, but sometimes at home and when my friends used to try and drag me out for coffee, I'd just lose all ability to talk. It gets to be a huge bother when I have to call my friends, so I dial the phone, and then sometimes it comes up and I can't talk.

But I can speak fine at home sometimes, and fine at work (which you'd think would be a place that would make one anxious).

So anyone else have any experience with it? I'm not sure it's called "selective mutism" because I thought that was supposed to only affect children.