I went mute at age 10 and didn't speak at all for a whole year not at home not at school not in clubs i just didn't speak it felt like to much i preferred being quiet and in rare moments were i wanted to i felt a ball in my throat that made me unable to speak i went to doctors nothing was physically wring with me i went to school psychiatrists it was never called SM to me i was always told i went mute not selectively mute now as a psychology student im trying to find research articles and its all about Selective mutism and the term just sounds gross to me I didn't choose that who would choose that! I didn't select to not speak for a whole year!
Earlier i go up to my teacher because I'm doing a developmental study on myself so i don't have to talk to anybody and the first thing i hear out of her is "your not mute you have selective mutism" WHAT who are you to tell me what i can or cant call myself i lost the ability to speak for a YEAR and struggles with it for many years after hell i still struggle with it so why do we call it such a insulting thing?
Now I'm trying to find articles about it and am insulted every time. Was mine different to selective mutism is that why it was never called that to me or was the term just not used around me?