Becoming fluent in your conlang: please share your anecdotes

This is for one of the probable talks for next year's LCC.

Please share some anecdotes, musings, or otherwise as interesting,
about becoming fluent in your conlang.

Have you?
Have you tried? (If yes, how and what worked?)
How has it affected your life generally, your thought processes, etc?
How have others reacted?
Has anyone other than you tried to become fluent in your conlang; any
stories to go with that?
Etc.

It's intended as a fairly open prompt.

 - Sai

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