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What habit do you possess that seems very normal to you, but would seem odd to anyone else?
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Stopping midsentence and expecting other people to know what I was about to say.
Impulsively replacing a word with something that could be considered adjacent; "My teammates" could become "my animals".
Pretty sure I got this habit from my mum, who is ESL and later developed aphasia after having a stroke young. It kinda bled out into how me and my sisters communicated and I carried it into adulthood, although I only do this around people I feel super comfortable with.
I do the first one all the time. I'll be in the middle of something while talking, or struggle to remember the correct word, and I'll just kinda trail off. Then maybe 10 seconds later I'll remember that I just stopped talking mid-sentence and try to pick back up.
ESL?
English as a Second Language I presume