The Camp

muted // laney

i am currently in tenth grade i havn't spoken since the end of eighth grade when i grasped the true problems in my life. i simply stopped because i saw no purpose. i am and was fully capable but i stopped. i used to talk a lot, i used to be a lot different than i am now. that however, was a different time. i narrarate a lot, in my mind that is. i write notes, i don't laugh, i hold it in if i have to. it is just different now. i am going to a summer camp the whole summer. my mom signed me up, i know she is concerned. she took me to places and therapists. 

sometimes she cries, she cries because i don't talk. i write her notes. i hug her. i use sign language. a lot of people at my school think i'm deaf. that is better than them knowing -- knowing i don't speak, or the reasons behind it all. i'm laney and i have been mute for two years.