Is it normal that my train of thoughts are messed up?

Due to the fact that I speak 3 fluent languages, Japanese, Chinese and English since I lived half my life in Japan and Australia (my blood is Chinese). My train of thoughts are messed up, I can't express myself well in English, Chinese nor Japanese sometimes. My parents taught me Chinese so I could communicate with my grandparents. Japanese and English I learnt them at school, but because I left Japan at a young age and also I don't speak Japanese much at home. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that I learnt my 3 languages half assedly so I don't have a main language, so I can't express myself well sometimes because I think in 3 different languages and I sometimes lack the vocab with particular language, resulting in Chinese people thinking I am slow or stupid, Japanese people too, and even people who speaks English and I get underestimated. It sure is hard being a Trilingual.

Is It Normal?
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  • What language do you think in?

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  • I speak english, spanish, and german. I can think in all languages, Im from Miami so that account for the spanglish but sometimes i catch myslef thinking in german or even speaking german at home where i dont have to. + i used to speak italian but after a while i stopped practicing it and it sorta rolled down my mind.

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  • I don't dream haha

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  • I was once told by a friend of mine, who happens to be multilingual, that the language that you dream in is your natural language. After he moves to the states in high school, he said it was a full two years before he started dreaming in English, and the longer he was here the more exclusive the English dreaming became. He still speaks exclusively Russian around his family, but interacts in English in daily life.

    What language do you dream in?

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  • What did you smoke flutterhigh?

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  • well you cant have everything your own way, whats wrong with you you know all those languages ,you can build on that ! you have yukio and confucious. and the rest!! i feel so annoyed with you right now , so sososososos aahh envy, nice

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