Chapter 2 I Get Selective Mutism
A Friend of Mine Protected Me from Bullying
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I had nothing to complain about my new home life.
But in school, I felt there very stressful environment. I was bullied and got mute. I was worried about bullying rather than selective mutism then. I guessed I got mute because many classmates bullied me.
I was bullied by most classmates and even other classes' children. But there was a boy who protected me from bullying. His name was M, a carpenter' son.
I seemed to feel ease with M. One day, a girl classmate criticized me for talking only with M but not with other classmates. But even if I was with M, I couldn't talk smoothly.
I sometimes went to M's house to play with him. This was recorded in my diary which I turned in my homeroom teacher.
May 31 Walk
Invited by him, I went to M's house. I went on foot, because I couldn't go by bicycle. The distance between his house and mine is not so far away. But it takes some time, so I run. I arrived at an intersection. Traffic lights turned green, and I went again. Then, I arrived at M's house.
I was stupid. I recorded the process of going to M's house, not how I played with him. "Invited by him, I went to M's house" shows my passiveness due to selective mutism.
The comments by my homeroom teacher on this was shock to me.
M will change to another school in the next term.
I was unlucky. I had no friends except M. And M was the only classmate who protected me from bullying. But M was to move.
In the second term, M transferred to the B elementary school, near the A elementary school where I went to. No classmate protected me from bullying. I was bullied more severely.
(To be continued)
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