He didn’t speak for 10 years, out of choice

by Amrit Hallan on June 15, 2007

Now this is what we call a resolve. At 3 he was to be taken to the hospital for a tonsillectomy and he had threatened that if his parents took him there, he would stop speaking. He did. He didn’t speak for 10 years.

[tags]ben grocock, mute for 10 years[/tags]

http://mai-sometimes.blogspot.com Mai

Stubborn little mule, eh? And what, pray tell, did he say after 10 years>
http://mythicalblog.com Jeff Freeman

I call BS.

Shy Ben Grocock, 13, was traumatised by an operation to remove his tonsils and adenoids as a three-year-old.

Doctors diagnosed a rare anxiety order, selective mutism.

It looks to me like raisingkids.co.uk is just flat-out lying to make a better story: but maybe they really are too stupid to realize there’s a difference between “selective” and “elective”.