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[quote=Anonymous]I used to be a big talker as a kid and teenager.  I can tell you every time I got an explicit or implicit message from my mom or another adult that I was talking too much.  Every single message has stuck with me.** I’m a lot less talkative now and have a lot less self confidence.  I’m totally aware of what has happened, and yet I can’t get over it.  And I don’t by any means think I’m alone.  This is what the world does to girls.

**when my mom bought me a T-shirt that said “I’m talking and I can’t shut up.”
When I sat in the backseat of the car and counted as I asked her the same thing 10 times and she didn’t respond. When I finally started crying and got through to her, she told me that I talked too much.
When the professor leading my college orientation class posed a question and said, “anyone but Susie [me] please?”
And on and on.

Now that I have kids, I can recognize that I was totally normal.  My oldest kid talks a ton.  He’s just a happy little soul, and I think I was too.  I wish someone could have helped me figure out how to channel it then. Now I just write long posts on DCUM.  :)[/quote]

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