Saturday November 8, 2025 | List three things you can forgive yourself for.

For starters I need to announce that someone in the family has made me nervous or anxious about speaking. Not sure but all I can do is guess.  I am guessing when us kids were told about strangers, I have to say that's when it all started.  Which made me think of that song, "don't talk to strangers".  That song doesn't have anything to do with it; it just came up in my head.   I believe that my family did something to make me nervous or anxious about speaking right when us kids were learning about strangers which was when I was 3 and 4 years old.  I didn't realize that my family said something to make me anxious and my family didn't realize what they said.  I wonder if that could be the cause of me to stop talking because I got scared?  Do you think that anyone who has selective mutism would start to develop SM around the age of 3 and 4 when they are just starting to go into preschool and maybe all the little kids teased them because they were too anxious to talk to the other kids or the teacher back then?  

I am just trying to speak up for that 3 and 4 year old little girl that I once was.  But people keep trying to correct me and tell me about selective mutism.  I did my research back in 2012.   I go to the official sites like selectivemutism.org.  One more thing, people keep telling me that selective mutism on Facebook and instagram are a scam.  So I asked if they were real.  Well of course they said that they were real.  I don't know what to believe these days.  I think there is that little word called narcissism.  I don't think family act like little narcissists around a 3 and 4 year old but I suppose it could be possible?