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I hate when I start mimicking peoples speech patterns. I can’t help it and many people have believed I was mocking them or a certain community but I literally just can’t help but be a damn mocking bird
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Anonymous 9w

I feel this in my soul!

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Anonymous 9w

Same especially when im the only white person who works where I work 😭

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Anonymous 9w

I thought I had some weird mental illness growing up because of this.

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Anonymous 9w

i dated an english man and had to fight with myself DAILY not to accidentally use his accent

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 9w

NO LITERALLY THIS IS MY PROBLEM RECENTLY

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 9w

I work at a housing authority with kids and ive been catching myself accidentally using aave and mimicking the way they talk 😭 they understand me better that way though and its not intentional it’s just my tism fr

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 9w

No yeah me too dude I feel that in my soul, I keep using aave when customers are and I don’t mean to but I’m just a vibe matcher

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