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People have been kind to me, but there are still moments when I feel like the room already learned a language I missed. I am trying to figure out whether that feeling fades or whether you just learn to work around it.
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People have been kind to me, but there are still moments when I feel like the room already learned a language I missed. I am trying to figure out whether that feeling fades or whether you just learn to work around it.
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How long did it take before you felt less like you were catching up all the time?
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I think belonging gets easier when people make room for you to learn out loud. The pace matters almost as much as the welcome.
Following up from the thread about being the quiet kid and still counting
I do better when somebody talks to me like a person and not like I am supposed to already know the church language.
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A lot of people arrive slowly and read for a while before they speak. That still counts as belonging.
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