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26 Sep 2019, 12:49 pm

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It seems to me that selective mutism is something that can happen even to many NTs. The words "speechless" and "dumbfounded" are commonly used in contexts implying that it's something that can happen to almost anyone under sufficiently astonishing circumstances. Apparently many autistic people have a lower-than-average threshold for this phenomenon?


I know of non-autistics who have selective mutism.



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27 Sep 2019, 12:38 pm

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Apraixa or dyspraxia of speech is an oral motor speech disorder where the mouth and tongue are uncoordinated. I have that problem as well.

do those two words mean similar things?


They are used interchangeably as far as I know.
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27 Sep 2019, 12:41 pm

EzraS wrote:
Mona Pereth wrote:
It seems to me that selective mutism is something that can happen even to many NTs. The words "speechless" and "dumbfounded" are commonly used in contexts implying that it's something that can happen to almost anyone under sufficiently astonishing circumstances. Apparently many autistic people have a lower-than-average threshold for this phenomenon?


I know of non-autistics who have selective mutism.
Yes, it is its own separate diagnosis. You don't have to have Autism to have it.


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27 Sep 2019, 5:20 pm

I still deal with selective mutism, ordering food isn't so bad because it's script based but talking on the phone to say the bank is bad for me.



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27 Sep 2019, 7:05 pm

I was non verbal up to the age of 8 and then I babbled like a toddler but by 10 I was talking full sentences then by 11 or 12 I was fluent.
but I dont remember why I didnt talk but I think I was just delayed at learning to speak.


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28 Sep 2019, 4:25 pm

This is a really interesting post, thanks OP.

I am wondering if there is a name for what I go through.
My current psychiatrist speculates autism and SPD but we have just found out that I have epilepsy, so we are still trying to put the puzzle pieces together.


I am not sure if I'm just socially inept, shy, selectively mute, or just a bit odd. But I am silent almost 95% of my life. I can respond to people such are my parents and my professors but what I want to say almost never comes out. My responses are very very short. I carry better conversation with my doctors than anyone else because what they do intrigues me to no end. (I want to go into medicine, myself.) Teachers have always noticed I was very very very quiet and have even given me lower scores for it but no one ever suggested that I might need help with it.