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Originally Posted by Griffe
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.
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I've had selective mutism since I was 12 years old (I'm 19 now). I'm an adult now so I guess it doesn't only affect children. I can talk freely to my family but not to most everyone else. I can't even talk to people on the phone besides my immediate family. Most of the time I can order food at restaurants though a lot of the time the waiter can't hear me. When I went to school I could only talk to my classmates when the teachers weren't watching.
Selective mutism is probably my biggest problem. I just get so anxious that I can't speak. I usually communicate to people by writing though sometimes I get too scared to even do that.
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