it's just occurred to me that this "assuming you're like me" may have just happened to me ;-)
OTOH, building rapport so quickly sounds like a kind of superpower that some NDs may be lucky to have ;-D
me, I'm fond of acquiring languages, but I'm not quite as good at learning natural ones as I wish I were.
the synced walking thing is most likely something about OCD; I get anxious when I can't, it sort of offends my sense of symmetry, if that makes sense