I’ve studied various types of human behaviour analogy and something that comes to mind here is that people that like you will mirror you. Whether it’s the colour clothes you wear, how you walk, talk and even things you eat. A little phrase that goes monkey see, monkey do. It originated in Jamaica back in the 18th century and became known in the US somewhere around the 1920,s. The saying refers to learning something by mimicry, without understanding why it works or concerned about the consequences. I myself believe how I started stuttering was copying a friend of mine while we in kindergarten to try and gain his trust because I wanted to become friends with him