Have you ever told someone the opposite of what you meant?

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For example I used to have trouble with people I liked or were friends with me. Sometime I'd feel overwhelmed just because they are around and I'd tell them to go away and I didn't like them but it wasn't true. I couldn't say anything else though. :/

I say things like that alot, then look back and cant understand why I said what I said

I have opportunities to socialize but don't take advantage of them because socializing feels too disorganized, it feels messy and pointless.

Gosh!

You need some stock phrase you can use when you get "socially overloaded" that you can use to politely get folks to leave, but not to leave you forever.

Doesn't matter if the phrase has any truth in it or not. Only that its polite. "I need to work on my masters dissertation right now, so I gotta go", or "I gotta get back to writing the great American novel that I am working on...gotta crank out a 1000 words a day".

I should say something like that. I don't have friends now but I wish I could go back like 3 years and say something nicer instead.

nope im way too blunt to do this haha, i just say what i mean when i mean it, which means i dont apologise for things, usually my parents have to force it out of me, as they say "you apologise when you did something you didn't mean, or mean to do" but i meant to do these things, so why should i apologise?


i think my best moment was when a guy asked me for my pencil, saying it wasn't a question, but it was, so i told him "no, its my pencil, and i dont want your hands all over it" haha, he was so mad, deserved it though, he was a d**k

most of my 'opposite-isms' are in the actual flipping of intended meaning and not as a defense mechanism. Sort of a 'tonguelexia' if you will.

I get nervous in front of one of my bus drivers, because his brain works fast and easily produces jokes. I remember saying to him, "When do you get off?" of course, meaning "When do I get off?" I told my mom that and she thought he probably thought I was trying to pick him up. Ugh.

Yeah. I wish you could have too. You might still have friends.