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b. Showing anxiety disorder social phobia
It was found that Jadie showed anxiety disorder rather than excessive shynessanxiety in family because the fact showed that Jadie had good intimacy or
relationship with her family. According to Davison and Neale 1986, one of the characteristics of social phobia is irrational fear which is generally linked to the
presence of other people. In this novel, Jadie showed this characteristic. “I like this drawing,” I said at last. “Do you suppose I could have it?”
Jadie looked over. “What would you do with it?” “Just keep it. Maybe put it up on the wall. It’s a good picture. Maybe the
other would like to see it.” “No,” Jadie replied, alarm in her voice. “I don’t want anybody else to see
it.” “No? Why not?”
“ ‘Cause I told you. ‘Cause it’s private what goes on inside you. Besides, if you put it on the wall, spiders might walk on it. Spiders might see. Then
the policeman would come.” She completely lost me on that one. “Policeman?” I said in bewilderment.
“What do you mean?” “They’d take me away for lying. They’d put me in jail. I might die.
Sometimes policeman kill you with their guns, if they think you’re trying to get away. And if they got you in the jail, sometimes they kill you in a
chair” pp. 45-46.
The conversation above happened when Jadie drew a picture of her younger sister and herself. She told Torey that they were not little girls on the
picture but two ghosts. When Torey asked for keeping Jadie’s drawing, she questioned what Torey was going to do with her drawing, and then, when Torey
answered that she probably displayed the picture on the wall, Jadie looked so worried and disagreed. Jadie said to Torey if her drawing was displayed, a spider
would walk on and see it, therefore she would be jailed by the policeman who came after the spider that saw her drawing and reported her to the policeman. This
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for policeman to come just because there was a picture about ghost and a spider saw it. If only a spider walked on and saw the picture, it was impossible for a
spider to call the policeman. From this case, it was proved that anxiety disorder, which is shown by irrational fear linked to the presence of other people, as one of
characteristics of selective mutism was owned by Jadie. However, Jadie did not show characteristic of social-withdrawal disorder because even though Jadie did
not make conversation with other people except her family, when she was in a class, she did not hide herself and still did her own activity. It was different from
the theory of Davison and Neale 1986, p.G18 which mentions that people with this kind of disorder will hide when they are in crowd.
c. Showing compulsive traits
As Davison and Neale mentioned 1986, p. 233 that people with compulsive traits are generally serious, formal, not showing warmth and
friendliness, and work-oriented rather than pleasure-oriented. Work-oriented here means that while other people are busy doing something fun, the person with
compulsive traits is probably busy with hisher assignment or obligation. It is known that Jadie did not speak to other people except to her family
and finally Torey, her teacher. It showed that Jadie did not make friends with her classmates in the class. This characteristic proved that Jadie was not showing
warmth and friendliness. It could be seen from this part of the novel. “Man, lady, don’t you take no hint?” Jeremiah shouted. She doesn’t talk.
You been told that already. So don’t go hassling folks about what’s wrong
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