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Art Was My Voice When I Couldn't Speak as a Child With Autism and Selective Mutism

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For as long as I could remember, words were always trapped inside my head. I was always the quiet one. The silent one everyone forgot about or overlooked.

At home, I spent my time alone in my room with my cats. People often talked about me as if I was deaf and could not hear them simply because I did not speak.

They asked others if I could speak instead of asking me. School was especially difficult for me. My family moved around a lot and it made a quiet shy kid withdraw even more.

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