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Chapter 4 Selective mutism and my junior high school years
Ninth grade (2)
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About half of the new classmates were my former classmates. But I had no friends in the class.
Y was in the same class. She was my eighth classmate. When Y and I were the eighth grade, she showed me many kindnesses. Soon after we moved up to the ninth grade, Y introduced me to some classmates as "a cute boy." So, I was accepted into them.
Another kind classmate was K. She was my fifth, sixth and eighth classmate. She had a close friend, S, and sometimes showed me many kindnesses with her.
But not all classmates were kind to me. Some classmates, especially male classmates, began to bully me.
I had no friends to help me. Instead of friends, female classmates, such as Y, K and S, helped me. But that aroused jealousy of male bullies, and their bullying got severe.
(To be continued)
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