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Does anyone else get hangups about how much they use certain word constructions? I dunno if it's an autistic thing, an (undiagnosed) anxiety thing, or just wanting to keep best practice, but it's something I've been thinking about a lot lately for a long time. Things like:

  • adverbs
  • the word "just"
  • the word "while"
  • the perfect tense
  • hedging when it comes to giving opinions (saying "I feel like", things like that)
  • the pronoun "I" (I can't shake the sense I talk about myself too much)

Is this normal? Whether that's what people choose to call normal or it's actually normal. I also reckon I've conflated two separate things into one thing.

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we're not sure we've really thought about it before, but we do this too. another one we get hangups about is repeating a phrase or notable word that either us or someone else used earlier in the conversation.
...also, using people's names when talking to or around them, other than as a greeting or to get their attention
so you're definitely not alone there. and i don't think it's much of a stretch to say this is probably a neurodivergence thing, yeah.

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