elective mutism in English
noun
voluntary mutism, mutism caused by psychogenic reasons, mutism that is voluntary on the part of a patient
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1. Konigsburg's Silent to the Bone and Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak, Cut is another authentic-sounding novel in which elective mutism plays a part, this time with humor making the pain of adolescence gone awry more bearablean exceptional character study of a young woman and her hospital mates who struggle with demons so severe that …