31 situation showed that Jadie’s fear was irrational. It was irrational and impossible
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
32 with them. How’d you like it, if people kept getting at you for being so
dumb? You can’t help that, can you?” p.15
This part brought a situation when Torey tried to talk to Jadie, and Jeremiah, Jadie’s classmate, reminded Torey that Jadie did not talk. This part of
story showed that even Jadie’s classmate knew Jadie’s problem with speaking. Not speaking with other people means not making relation which generally linked
to warmth and friendliness of a person. Besides, Jadie also showed the characteristic of work-oriented, rather than pleasure-oriented. This characteristic
was shown when Jadie’s classmates were busy with themselves and not cooperative with Torey at all, Jadie was only busy with many exercises although
there was no instruction to do those exercises. Jadie did all her excercises just like a normal girl in a normal class.
In the middle of all this was Jadie, carrying on as if she were in a completely normal classroom. Without being instructed to do so, she
ferreted out her workbooks for math and reading, sat down and completed a few pages, returned them to be corrected, found a spelling sheet on the
shelf, did that, handed it into the basket on the teacher’s desk, then sought out a cassette, put it into the recorder, and slipped the earphones on p. 10.
What is shown above indicated a tendency of work-oriented rather than pleasure-oriented. Therefore, it can be concluded that Jadie had compulsive traits
as one of the characteristics of selective mutism disorder.
d. Showing Negativism
According to Davison and Neale 1986, negative symptoms consist of behavioral deficits. They are alogia, avolition-apathy, anhedonia-asociality, and
