# My gf insists that she did something, when it was actually myself.

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 22, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-insists-that-she-did-something-when-it-was-actually-myself/641801 "2012-11-22T03:41:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-insists-that-she-did-something-when-it-was-actually-myself/641801/61 "2012-11-26T22:35:05Z")

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[QUOTE=Learjeff]  
…there’s research that shows that our brains are amazingly good at rationalizing, without us being aware of it.  
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I’m sure this is what’s happening with my folks (post 53, going deaf) their brains are processing the half heard jumble while they’re thinking of what to say, so they’ll say exactly the same phrase as the person they were listening to and then insist it was an original idea; they can’t be repeating it, because they never (consciously) heard it in the first place.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-insists-that-she-did-something-when-it-was-actually-myself/641801/62 "2012-11-26T23:17:22Z")

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> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#):
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> ME! Me, dammit! When did “me” become a taboo word?

Since over [three years ago!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=527883)🙂

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**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-gf-insists-that-she-did-something-when-it-was-actually-myself/641801/63 "2012-11-27T18:43:17Z")

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My aunt and mom (twins) will be sitting in a room and my aunt would tell a fantastical story about being in the back of a runaway horse cart. My mother would roll her eyes, and shake her head at me. “That never happened,” she’d say later.

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