Mutism Stories

Demetria Montella, a sixteen almost seventeen year old, teenager from Northern England, who is suffering from grief and selective mutism. She's never had a good life. Even when it was just Demetria and her guilt stricken mother, who made one bad decision, and ended up being the mother she never wanted to be. After her mother's death, Demetria finds herself in a care home. Where she is to stay...until her social worker pulls her out of class. Only to tell her she's been missing for eleven years. In Spain. Not only is she a missing person, she also has a family. A father. A step mother. And five older brothers. Will Demetria take their help? Will she take the chance to live a different life? Who will help her along the way? Will she even find help?

Sierra Esposito knew three things well. One- People were inherently evil and selfish. Two- Words are what got you hurt. Three- Sometimes it was easier to accept the situation, rather than fight back. These three rules got her through life-- not unscathed, but alive. Even when she didn't want to be. ... Giuseppe De Santis had been searching for his missing daughter, ever since she was taken all those years ago. When he finally gets the phonecall saying she's been found, he's ecstatic. Finally happy that everything can go back to the way it used to be. But Sierra has changed since she was a baby and she knows nothing of him and his world. And when she isn't speaking to him or her brothers, it's almost impossible to get her to open up. They must learn to be a family again, but that's almost impossible. There are so many secrets between them and other factors are at play. Factors that are determined to get Sierra back, no matter who gets hurts. ... TW* This story has mentions/depictions of assault (physical, sexual, mental, etc), alcohol abuse, drug abuse, self-harm, suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, violence, and anything else falling under those categories. Please prioritize your mental health. *Any images in the cover and/or chapters are not mine. I found them on Pinterest* *I own all the rights to these characters. Please do not pirate my work*

jaemin has been selective mute since the age of 10 which means not going to school... but what if he wanted to go back there? what if he met new friends there? and who knows... what if he met the love(s) of his life? norenmin

Peaches is a nearly blind artist who is losing her eyesight rapidly due to a life-threatening infection. When the young woman is given three months until she either completely loses all of her eyesight or dies from the infection that is killing her body, she is unable to decide if she would rather live a long life in darkness or a perfect one for three short months. As the pressures of her home life and her soon approaching death date become unbearable, Peaches decides to run away with her best friend to California so she can search for that certain 'honey-colored, perfect vignette, drive into the sunset' kind of moment so that she can die happily. But, she didn't expect to find that her silent guardian angel has different ideas for her. Author's note: The art in the cover was a commission done by Agatheas-dcizsru ( on DeviantArt) of a character named Eden, who belongs fully to me.

Lacy andromeda Minyard learns that she doesn't have to be quiet.

Techno has always been the quiet kid. He has the ability to talk, but after the shit he's been through, he doesn't see the point. He gets adopted by a man named Philza, who, to his suprise - doesn't attempt to force him to talk. I will list all trigger warnings at the top of the page, but listening to those and keeping yourself is DUMB. TAKE A RISK <3

Sparrowpaw doesn't know a lot of things. She doesn't know why the sun rises over the Root tree or why the wind blows. She doesn't know why she was so excited the worst day of her life, when glassy eyes ripped through her just as viciously as the beak did. She does know she's going to be a warrior though, even without her voice working properly. She has to be, no matter how small the world makes her out to be. These memories are not her's. Sparrowpaw is forced to fight them, but as she navigates the tangle of pain and joy her life is, she feels she might be fighting the wrong force.

Pretty and shy Esmeralda (Esme) Demartini is in love with handsome and confident Luc Lescartes, who in turn, is in love with Esmeralda (Esme) Demartini. What could go wrong? Everything.

This is only a draft of the story ODD or Only Differently Designed, please visit my profile for the latest draft :)

zenyth is in an orphan. his parents died in a crash when he was little and so he was adopted into an abusive household. he was conditioned to never speak and so he didn't. he didn't really go to school either. one day he says something and gets kicked out and is in the hospital.

Dean has been having issues with bouts of mutism since they were young. In college, Sam took ASL - American Sign Language. A little ficlet because even the strongest people can deal with selective mutism and I saw a headcanon that Dean would deal with it as a result of a fucked up childhood and Sam would be really supportive and sweet and help him in every way he could.

What if Jaune had disorders that most would become outcasts from? What if he harnessed them, becoming the most popular DJ in Vale? And, what if he went to Beacon Academy. Meet, Huntsm4n!

Ava never meant for any of this to happen. She just wanted her sister to be safe from that evil, calamitous and corrosive monster- but it's too late now, Ava has made her bed and now she has to lie in it...in her own voluntary silence. Ava can never disclose her secret. Not again.

Sometimes you have trouble breathing like in you where to breath in you would pull in everything around you and explode, but then you breath out and you're only left empty. Having been in an accident at a young age Kita didn't see the point and doing anything anymore and really at this point shes only her because of her brother. having sacrificed everything to raise her after the incident he finally get promoted to something better so when he tells her their moving she goes right along with it. Having thought for eight years she didn't deserve to be happy though living for her brother's sake she thought nothing would ever change, so when after moving right before her senior year shes given a choice by her brother she doesn't know what to do. what happens with the choice she makes and when following through with her choice was is it certain people won't leave her alone.

The moment Marley Mason moved to the United States of America he stopped speaking. Dislocated from his mother, friends, and culture, Marley found it impossible to voice his thoughts to anyone but his father. Thereafter, he gave up on himself and his happiness. What else was an alien to do? Until he meets Ava DeLoughery and she makes him want to give this world a second try. To put his headphones down and experience everything that life has to offer one at a time again, and again, and again. For the first time in a long time, Marley Mason feels like himself. But the Miami summer-time heat must be getting to him because Marley Mason should know better than to find a home in fickle people, like Ava DeLoughery. completed

Melody West is dead, that much is known. Yet, when she is ready to move on with a ticket in hand she waits for the train that brings her to paradise. She waits, and waits, and finds the trains to purgatory aren't coming any time soon, and she is the one to find out why. "No, you don't get it. We have been here way longer than we are supposed to be. They come every three seconds, on the dot. Face it they're not coming." I hate fate, sometimes I think it's mutual, "You're stuck in Purgatory."

Luke Hemmings is the heart throb of Norwest Christian College. Him and his two friends, Michael and Calum practically run the school. Everything is perfect until he sees an intriguing boy with a white board, a missing voice and a deadly secret. Ashton Irwin is the boy that everyone knows about and not for good reasons. Everyone stays away from him and that's how he likes it. He hates the world and everyone in it feeling that they should be as miserable as he is now. He was content with being alone until he meets a boy persistent in knowing him.

Loving him and being loved back was something Travis Meyers never imagined in his wildest dreams. But here he is, loving the boy of his dreaded nightmares and wistful dreams. Only he didn't love him back. Or did he?

Isabella have been living a hard life since she could remember. what happens when the person that causes all her problems die? and she soon finds out she has 5 brothers that are hiding something. will she learn to trust them?