Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeA woman who couldn't talk as a child remembers how grown adults would ask her if she was "stupid". Niamh Foy, 19, recollected her troubling childhood which often saw her being subjected to bullying as people couldn't understand why she was unable to speak. Niamh was diagnosed as young as three with selective mutism, a rare type of anxiety caused by problems with the amygdala in the brain, the Liverpool Echo reports. (Image: Alder Hey Children's Hospital WS)In an interview with the BBC, she said she would feel "sad" as she watched her classmates play together while she was left alone. Years of speech therapy at Alder Hey, Niamh said, changed her life and put her on the path to recovery.

Source: Daily Mirror May 20, 2021 18:51 UTC