I usually talk a lot.

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I usually talk a lot. I try to get a lot in all at once. Only later does it occur to me that I should stop to see if my first point is getting across before I move on to the next five.

There have been a few occasions when I did not talk. The only one I can clearly remember is shortly after I got beat up by thirteen older boys in the gym locker room, locked in a locker and then pounded again when I got out. Almost twenty years later, it occurred to me that I was in shock when, about a week later, I was deliberately defying some more older boys by refusing to speak. I was standing over a campfire of all things and these guys were demanding I talk. I remember thinking that I was asking them to beat me up again. One of them tackled me. I just got up and shook it off and didn't really analyze for about 20 years.

I'm not sure if this is the type of selective mutism you're talking about, but your post stimulated this memory. I think I'm still learning about this kind of thing. I only found out I'm an Aspie earlier this year (at age 34).

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Yeah..boys with AS who talk a lot tend to get bullied...

I was always bullied for not talking. I don't know why they hated it so much. Maybe because I'd ignore them and act like they didn't exist and this hurt their egos. XD

Selective mutism is triggered by a traumatic event. I think it happened when I got lost in a supermarket when I was about 4.

This was supposed to be a reply to another thread about selective mutism. Yesterday was my first day using this forum.

I made this mistake three times that I know of.

You may have been bullied either way.

I also do a lot of talking. I talk to my friends a lot. I talk to the staff at my clubhouse, nonstop. I talk to myself a lot, and I yap on about everything to my coworkers. I also do a lot of talking on WP, because I see a lot of topics that interest me.