Comments on: He didn’t speak for 10 years, out of choice http://writingcave.com/he-didnt-speak-for-10-years-out-of-choice/ Thoughts on politics, society, literature, philosophy, social media, and pretty much everything else Fri, 18 May 2012 07:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeff Freeman http://writingcave.com/he-didnt-speak-for-10-years-out-of-choice/#comment-1737 Jeff Freeman Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:59:02 +0000 http://www.writingcave.com/he-didnt-speak-for-10-years-out-of-choice/#comment-1737 <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007270468,00.html" rel="nofollow">I call BS</a>. <blockquote>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.</blockquote> 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". 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”.

]]> By: Mai http://writingcave.com/he-didnt-speak-for-10-years-out-of-choice/#comment-1736 Mai Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:05:05 +0000 http://www.writingcave.com/he-didnt-speak-for-10-years-out-of-choice/#comment-1736 Stubborn little mule, eh? And what, pray tell, did he say after 10 years> Stubborn little mule, eh? And what, pray tell, did he say after 10 years>

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