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Selective Mutism

Kate Kestrel

Does anyone on here have Selective Mutism? My son has struggled with Selective Mutism (in educational settings) for about 16 years and it’s just struck me that we’ve never had a conversation with another person who has Selective Mutism. I’m new(ish) to this community so I just thought I’d ask if anyone else has gone through their whole education with Selective Mutism. And also if you have managed to overcome it - how did you do that? 
We’re basically just interested in hearing about other people’s experience of this. Thanks Sunflower

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  • I was communicating using single words or short sentences ( Nie wiem = I don't know), most of the time, sometimes it wasn't not being able because of stress but no need to do so. At home with my sisters I was talking normally. 

    Until I was 16 and my math teacher found a walkaround to help me pass GCSE equivalent in polish, I joined school theatre lead by one of polish teachers, she was friend of my math teacher, and they made a deal, if I join theatre and do those roles nobody wanted, she will note during exam to let me pass, this way I had 2 out od 3 teachers sitting during exam on my side. 

    So I joined theatre, and artists turned out to be nice and reasonable people, they helped me learn how to articulate more difficult words, (words like like that were often making me unable to speak), and they convinced me to start rehearsing things in my head, this way when it's time to say them I'll be ready. Until then I was thinking only my way, in pictures, not in words. 

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  • I was communicating using single words or short sentences ( Nie wiem = I don't know), most of the time, sometimes it wasn't not being able because of stress but no need to do so. At home with my sisters I was talking normally. 

    Until I was 16 and my math teacher found a walkaround to help me pass GCSE equivalent in polish, I joined school theatre lead by one of polish teachers, she was friend of my math teacher, and they made a deal, if I join theatre and do those roles nobody wanted, she will note during exam to let me pass, this way I had 2 out od 3 teachers sitting during exam on my side. 

    So I joined theatre, and artists turned out to be nice and reasonable people, they helped me learn how to articulate more difficult words, (words like like that were often making me unable to speak), and they convinced me to start rehearsing things in my head, this way when it's time to say them I'll be ready. Until then I was thinking only my way, in pictures, not in words. 

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