Assumptions/Misconceptions(?) about Selective Mutism
Channel: Qualitaetsmerkmal
Date: 2019-10-10

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A second video for this year's Selective Mutism Awareness Month, wohoo! In this one, I reply to, and maybe correct things I've heard people say (to me) about the disorder.

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Timestamps of each assumption:
0:10 "You're just shy" 
0:27 "You choose (select) not so speak)"  
1:22 "You're afraid to speak"
2:33 "You must feel really isolated and lonely; you must wish you were outgoing and popular, but the disorder is holding you back."
4:53 "You enjoy the power you have over people when they have to speak for you/when you just don't reply to them ever."
5:30 "You just don't like talking."
5:54 "You only talk to people you feel like talking to."
6:36 "It's because of trauma."
7:44 "It's (a part of) autism." 
8:31 "Pushing you into a social situation without warning will help you!"
9:09 "But if you're warned before, it isn't challenging anymore and it therefore doesn't help?"
10:22 "So you're like that guy from The Big Bang Theory!" 

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Wait - what is this "selective mutism" I'm talking about? Here's more on it: 

My first Selective Mutism video from 2016: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjQLFtfVMWo
(I was very nervous and had not much experience in making videos, if it's too awkward to watch, there's a link to a google doc with everything I said in the description box too 😅) 

Growing up with Selective Mutism (2018): 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14xLyZn75fc

Selective Mutism from a patient's perspective (2019): 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzrUlLQaz4o&t 

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Other sources I'd recommend: 

https://www.selectivemutismfoundation.org/treatment-and-resources/free-brochure
(A good summary. The website also has an overview of the DSM's history with Selective Mutism, and a lot more good articles.) 

https://www.asha.org/practice-portal/clinical-topics/selective-mutism/
(Lots and lots of text, I know, but may be interesting to read if you have the time and energy.) 

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The best thing you can do to inform yourself is listening to people who have or had the disorder themselves, in my opinion. I hope other selective mutes will share their experiences and info in the comments, but I can also recommend these:


https://selectivemutismawareness.tumblr.com/
(This blog seems to be inactive, but well, there are still some interesting posts that are not going anywhere for now and are still worth reading to get some insight.) 

https://selectivemutismprobs.tumblr.com/tagged/selective-mutism-problems
(This one hasn't been updated in a while either, but the problems posted under that link still offer some insight into what's going on... inside.) 

https://jumping-spider-old-account.tumblr.com/post/145562831172/this-is-a-very-old-comic-but-idk-i-did-it-for
(A comic about how it feels, this one really impressed me when I first saw it.) 

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I am not associated with any of the websites/blogs I linked, nor am I getting or expecting anything in return for referring to them. I found them and thought "Yeah, that's good info, people should see this" on my own, that's all. :-) 

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