In the book Fifty Shades of Grey, Christian Grey is depicted as having been an elective mute from age 4, when he witnessed his birth mothers drug overdose and death and was with her body for days before being discovered, until he was 6 years old and he spoke his newly adopted baby sisters name. In John Greens narrative YouTube series Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers, midfielder Maric Maric is selectively mute. In A Good Woman Is Hard to Find, Ben Collins stops speaking after witnessing his father being knifed to death. In the season 7 episode of Little House on the Prairie "The Silent Cry", one of the two brothers is depicted as an elective mute, much of the story revolving around the issues with adopting him due to not speaking. == References ==
Treatment
Treatment varies for micropsia due to the large number of different causes for the condition.Treatments involving the occlusion of one eye and the use of a prism fitted over an eyeglass lens have both been shown to provide relief from micropsia.Micropsia that is induced by macular degeneration can be treated in several ways. A study called AREDS (age-related eye disease study) determined that taking dietary supplements containing high-dose antioxidants and zinc produced significant benefits with regard to disease progression. This study was the first ever to prove that dietary supplements can alter the natural progression and complications of a disease state. Laser treatments also look promising but are still in clinical stages. Epidemiology
Episodes of micropsia or macropsia occur in 9% of adolescents.10-35% of those with migraines experience auras, with 88% of these patients experiencing both visual auras (which include micropsia) and neurological auras.Micropsia seems to be slightly more common in boys than in girls among children who experience migraines.Approximately 80% of temporal lobe seizures produce auras that may lead to micropsia or macropsia. They are a common feature of simple partial seizures and usually precede complex partial seizures of temporal lobe origin.Central Serous Chorioretinopathy (CSCR) which can produce micropsia predominantly affects persons between the ages of 20 and 50. Women appear to be affected more than men by a factor of almost 3 to 1.