Is it normal to pick up the habits of people you spend alot of time with?

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I often find myself subconciously copying my friends actions, which i know means that you like someone and are trying to connect with them. but when im not in their company i will carrying doing their little traits! or even speaking a little bit like them! one of my friends does this odd finger point when saying something profound and i do this an awful lot now! it's just odd, sometimes i do it by accident but other times it's more purposeful...weird huh? :p

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  • Samething?
    12 years ago

    Yeah its normal, that used to happen to me, some people even told me that I don't have my own personality, I just copied and copied and copied, but its just a thing that happens when I hang out with someone. Maybe I just do it because I want to get along with them, I was scared if I be myself that they wouldn't like it, sometimes I just did it because I liked what they do. You will soon stop doing it.

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  • derp
    13 years ago

    I sometimes find myself talking a little like people I hang around, too. Usually people I like and pay a lot of attention to, so their actions and ways of speaking stick in my head. I don't do it on purpose, but I usually don't mind and other people don't seem to notice.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    My friends have weird words that I find myself using sometimes, and then they notice it and its really funny.

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  • jamesmitchell29486
    13 years ago

    Like john cage on ally mcbeal.

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  • wreckd
    13 years ago

    ohhh yeahh. normal. my husband and i are basically the SAME person. it can get pretty rediculous sometimess.

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  • sydna100
    13 years ago

    I always do that and I think it's perfectly normal. Well at least i think it's mean if you do it to make them feel badO_o

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  • CountryRoads
    13 years ago

    Normal. But I hate when people I'm around start imitating my West Virginia accent. A lot of people here in the Midwest pick that up immediately and i don't understand why it happens so frequently. Literally in one night of hanging out they will develop a hearty twang...dumb.

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  • cpetz27
    13 years ago

    i always do that! and people get annoyed sometimes they're like you're so different now that you hang out with them... but I can't help it! Totally normal

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