Hi reddit! Longtime lurker first time posting. I (22 F) have an odd coworker (22 F) and like the title says she does talk in a baby voice. When I first came to work at our company she was quiet and never talked to me and I understand I am new why would she want to talk to me but me being the person I am I wanted to try to have a relationship with my coworker because we are going to be desk to desk so I would just start out by complementing her earrings and start having conversations about how she actually made them and I would say that is so cool because I couldn’t imagine having the patience and coordination in making jewelry and than we continued talking more about she sews, crochet, and a bunch of other things. I finally had my foot in the door and now I don’t have to sit in a quiet awkward space with her. Until one day she started speaking in a baby voice and at first I thought it was a joke but there was no joke that was made it was just her speaking to me and I just awkwardly laugh and I just went back to what I was doing. I thought it was a one time thing maybe she was making a joke and it just didn’t land for me but I was wrong. It was not a one time thing almost everyday now she at least speak in that baby voice once and it is starting to make me feel uncomfortable because now she will come over by me and talk to me in the baby voice and just start acting strange such as walking by my desk stopping staring at me and walking away, waiting for me when I go on my lunch and recently I was talking to another coworker and she comes over to grab a cup of coffee she turns to look at us stares and scoots over and says “Can I play?” in the baby voice laughs and walks away. My other coworker was stunned but then we both laugh awkwardly and we tried to go back to our conversation. So reddit AITA if I tell her to stop talking in a baby voice because it is making me uncomfortable?
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