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A Silent Child: Growing up with Selective Mutism

October is Selective Mutism Awareness Month. I’m sharing my experience as part of a series of posts on travelling with anxiety.   A Silent Child “She doesn’t speak in class.” That’s how my ten-year-old classmates explained it. Not “she can’t speak”, not “she won’t speak”, just a matter-of-fact behavioural observation, uttered in a non-judgemental chorusContinue Reading “A Silent Child: Growing up with Selective Mutism”