New plan: deliberate selective mutism

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Fair enough.

I am certain you will mature. Your bullies are a different matter entirely. And I understand why you wouldn't want to talk with them. You don't owe them any social interaction at all, anyways.

refusing to respond will usually cause someone to escalate their effort to antagonize you, trying to get you to speak. it becomes an amusing challenge to see what they have to do to make you speak, people do get bored but that can take a long time

The less you speak, the more difficult it becomes to speak when you want to. if i am silent for long periods i start to lose the ability to speak coherently, you just get used to not having to organize things in a way that another person can understand. At rarer times have not been able to push out even single words, it is unpleasant.

There will always be difficult people who are irrational and cruel and they will have things that you want and/or need. AS makes it harder to learn how to deal with people and avoiding the problem now will only delay it to later when the stakes are higher and the games people play are more complicated.