It's hard to hear people talking about you behind your back. If I get partnered up with someone I will sometimes hear them mutter to their friend how they got stuck with me, and how it will suck. I'll hear people telling new kids that I don't talk, ruining the fresh start I could of had with them. They know I can talk, they hear it. Yet they don't even give me a chance to try to talk to the people I am more comfortable talking to, people who don't know me at all.
I don't like the attention I get, it the fact that when I'm with friends I'm always the one who goes silent for the others, even if I was telling them something important. I don't like being picked last, being the odd one out. But it just doesn't work out for me.
I was literally ditched by my friend from the end of fourth grade all the way to the beginning of eighth, ruining some of the trust we had.
But all I want to know is why am I so different? Why do you have to treat me so different. I can hear just fine. I can see just fine. I have a freaking big heart. And I for one am a human just like all the rest of us...
So why treat me differently?
Is there really a definition of normal? Or is that just what we made up to make others feel bad about themselves. Because I can tell you one thing, no one is normal. But we are all the same.
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Not Just Shy
RandomSelective mutism isn't something that's fake or made up. It's a real thing that not many people know about. I never knew until I was told I had it. This is going to have some experiences I have had, and maybe or poem or two. But just renember this...
