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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I so want to tell you to say, "She talks just NOT around you" or "It is elective mutism, it's not that she does not talk she just does not talk around you."

Okay, I got that out. Sorry, no advice, ignorance is annoying. [/quote]

That's selective not elective. [/quote]

OP wrote elective, so i wrote elective. Are they 2 different things or a typo.

Either way, she talks just not around Aunt Noseypants. [/quote]

That's selective mutism.

Elective mutism is not the same.[/quote]

Elective mutism was the old terminology, but now the professional community uses Selective mutism. I believe it was a typo, as Elective mutism doesn't exist as a disorder anymore.[/quote]

She elected to stop talking over a year ago. To anyone. She doesn't talk at home, she doesn't talk to her dolls, she doesn't talk at all, to anyone. Although she won't, she also can't. Selective would mean she talks in certain situations, which is not her deal. [/quote]

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