What are the causes people become mute?
The causes are very wide ranging. There are cases where the brain or the body does not develop correctly from the time in forming a baby. The causes for this can result in poor diet such as not having Iodine. By not having Iodine a particular hormone does not form from the thyroid gland (it is in your neck). People like this are called hypothyroid. This condition somehow damages the developing auditory system, causing deafness and other neurological defects. There are many people in the USA (in the old days 1800’s) that developed this from a diet without enough Iodine. Brain injury could cause one to be mute Strokes People who choose not to talk are said to have selective mutism Particular drugs (bad ones that are against the law to have) can cause one’s brain to act weird and in some cases turn the person into one that does not talk much. The causes are not understood yet by medical researchers. I think “mute” is what you use to describe them.
