krazykat wrote:
it is very strange, but NTs from different cultures and a lower socioeconomic class then my own like me and I find them fascinating in turn.
I guess they already don't expect me to act like them, so I don't weird them out like I do with NTs from my own ethnic group and status
Yeah, I feel I can make friends and get on with foreigners much easier than I can with people who speak the same language as me as their first language.
When I talk, I prefer to talk like a stupid person, by missing out words like ''of'' and ''it'', words like that, but I can only get away with speaking like this to foreigners because they don't seem to notice like British people do. In fact they like me even more, and we get along fine. As a matter of fact, I remember the last time I met up with my Polish friend, he brought 2 of his Polish mates with him, and this was the first time in my life that I had ever been the life and soul of a group! I got a real taste of being a popular person. I felt my social phobia all went away without me feeling embarrassed to be heard a lot, and I was the centre of attention without feeling awkward. It was brilliant. But they all struggled with their English so I suppose being in an English country I was expected to do all the talking, and these men were nice enough to not all talk in Polish and leave me out, so they all tried speaking English but I was obviously the best at it because it's my first language so they just made me the dominent one.
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