hello. i guess i am going to type without any real grammar corrections from now on. i kind of like it... so anyways. it's just one of those typical tuesday nights (no taylor swift reference here) and i just thought of some, um, ideas? okay, so let's say you have a younger child with selective mutism. even though they might want to keep it a secret, it's best that everyone within a thousand miles knows about them. i know i didn't really want anyone to know when i was younger. i thought it was some problem that no one should know about. something that should be kept only in my family. only, i've found that if no one knows, it gets harder to cope with. people back off once they know something is going on. and i know from experience. i'm now 14 years old, still have selective mutism and cope with it everyday of my life. how much longer can i? i don't even know. not that many people know, but thanks to facebook and the about 200 friends from school on there, more people know. but not enough, i know, because things still happen. not everyone is on facebook. and not every friend on your account is going to even bother clicking on your links. so, i realized that in order to move on and beat this "disorder", i'm going to have to do something about it myself. i can do alot. i know i can. i can say so much using no words at all, thanks to youtube microsoft powerpoint. i can say anything, using no words at all. as apposed to the guy who talks about everything he can all day. i'm not trying to make my life public, and i'm definitely not trying to improve it by posting here on the internet. i'm trying to help other people. you learn from other people's failures and mistakes. you also learn from your own failures and mistakes. just because i can't help everybody doesn't mean i can't help anyone.