Email attachments in macbook

When I try and attach a document, picture etc. in an Email on my macbook, I click the paper clip attachment and it opens the document in my Email rather than attaching it. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thank you

Welcome to Apple Support Communities. We're all users here.
You're not doing anything wrong. The default way that Apple Mail handles attachments is 'in-line'.
If you're comfortable using Terminal.app, open Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app and paste in the desired command in boldface below to disable to cause attachments in messages you create to be viewed as icons .
The command to disable in-line attachments (attachments appear as icons)
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing 1
To command to (re-)enable in-line attachments once disabled (attachments appear as documents displayed in-line)
defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing 0

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