Mostly the 5 is due to me wanting to go along with the flow of other people and finding out that they were waiting for ME to make the first move and oops miscommunication

I also know that I tend to use longer and harder words purely by accident in everyday conversation and then realizing, oh, a small child I'm talking to probably doesn't know what this word means and backtracking

(hi I'm allison and I just came from a meeting with two doctors where I blathered on about correlation coefficients and then had to reiterate)

yah you're like a 1 at best you are too kind to be otherwise

yeah, 1, your internet presence is very sweet and kindin a way that offsets the impressively intelligent and accomplished

aw thanks you guys

I like to think I learned that from my dad because he knew he was this enormous, intimidating bearded man and was the sweetest guy

So he would take pains to make people feel welcomed. :3