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Chapter 3 I Suffer From Severe Selective Mutism
I was a serious boy only in school(2)
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[I was not serious!]
My teacher and most classmates viewed me as serious. But in my house, I was not such a boy. In fact, I liked a gag cartoon Tsurupika Hagemaru.
"Tomishige is serious. So, you watch only serious TV program, didn't you?"
I was sometimes asked that way by my classmates. I couldn't shake my head honestly.
Everyone viewed me as a serious boy. My homeroom teacher, especially, praised my seriousness. So, I was obsessed by the idea that I must behave like a genuine serious boy.
In this way, I was not able to relax in school more and more. Its' my own fault, though.
[After that]
Lastly, I'll write a bit about my life after I graduated from elementary school.
When I was in junior high school, high school and college, I was viewed as serious as before. Some people said, "I've never seen such a serious man!"
In addition, my families also viewed me as serious, probably because I was obsessed by the idea that I must be serious, and behaved that way.
The beginning of my long "serious life" was the 5th grade area.
(To be continued)
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