Do You Lie?

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Yes i can and do lie. Coolly and convincingly too .. (Sociopath :O )

I am very forgetful so it tends to be interpreted as lies.....dont know if this counts

i dont usually lie other then the white lies, however, i do bend/omit parts of the truth on occasion, and i am also known to feign interest in several topics being discussed during social gatherings, these are not lying, just not mentioning that i'm actually not interested, which is a different thing in my perception

I don't believe in lies.

I can't stand to be lied to. My grandparents used to do it all the time, and now it's to where I have no idea when they were telling me the truth.
I also noticed that when I lie, I get physically ill, so it's actually really unpleasant to lie to anyone. I try to avoid lying as much as possible.

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I am lying right now.

OK never mind... But no, I am addicted to the truth. It's for the same reason I'm interested in science: I focus on what is instead of what is not.

I can't lie. Ever. I hate it when people pressure me into it, but I will try... then it comes out unnatural, and I get so paranoid that they will notice that I immediately tell them the truth and why I was lying.

I also hate the tension when someone else is lying and I know. Like, if someone is trying to make a joke by hiding something from someone, I immediately tell the person. I can't stand it.

Same with social lying. I have extreme difficulty hiding my feelings if someone looks bad and asks me if they look good... I always think, though, if I asked that, I would WANT to know the truth, because why would I want to meet someone thinking I look amazing, when I looked horrible and someone could have told me to change my clothes or hair or something? Once, my friends got REALLY mad at me, because one of my friends thought this guy liked her, but I thought it was pretty obvious that he didn't, so I told her that she shouldn't waste her time on him.

People I know are fine with all this now, and know not to ask me to lie, and know not to ask my opinion of their appearance when they only want confirmation.

I lie all the time. I tell people what they want to hear.

When I am invited out, and I don't feel like being in the presence of other people, I will make up an excuse. I don't know whether it comes across as an authentic excuse, but it still works better than being honest and saying, 'I don't feel like hanging out today'. I will also make excuses to avoid seeing people I genuinely do not like, for fear of offending them. What I would love to say is, 'I don't want to go anywhere with you, because I don't enjoy your company'.

I lie when my mum asks me how I feel. If I told her about my anxiety, my depression or any other confronting emotion, it would only lead to her disappointment and at least 24 hours of regret. So I tell her I'm fine. When someone asks, 'how are you?' at work, I tell them I'm well. The majority of the time I'm not. Especially since work is one of the main reasons I'm not 'well' or 'fine'.

I lie through my facial expressions and body language as well. When someone tells me a story, I pretend to be interested. Most of the time, I find it dull. When someone tells a joke or story that is intended to be funny, I always fake laugh so that they don't feel bad.
Then there are some pretty serious lies I've told over the years. Those have been to protect me, rather than other people.

I'm honest about my failings as a person, though. I also do not hold much value in material possessions and income, so I don't care enough to lie about my financial situation.

I lie to police, otherwise no; I prefer to just withhold information.

I dislike lying, by habit and principle. Owing up to yourself builds confidence, and keeps your life from happening on other people's terms and expectations. Moreover, lies always seem incredibly fragile to me; I'm always keenly aware of all the things that could contradict and expose them.

I've no moral problem with it, it just seems socially and psychologically self-destructive. In contrast, lying to people like cops who threaten you with coercive consequences to certain answers seems perfectly reasonable to me.

I suppose I do sometimes bend truth, though, by consciously giving the perspective of my preference the benefit of a rhetorically favorable presentation within a known range of uncertainty.

Most people lie out of fear. Most times Ive never seen what the hell there was to be afraid of.

I mean, whaddya gonna do, hit me for telling the truth? And my dad actually did - a LOT - but Im hyposensitive to pain, and frankly I just thought he was an a**hole even MORE when hed do it.

Its funny though, he used to think I lied to him all the time. And it was also funny how he could never admit that hed been wrong after hed found out that hed thrown me a beating or grounded me for some thing that i was dead on about. He always saw me as being this Devious person, but in fact I was always pretty honorable, and it just didn t jive with the image of me he had in his mind. He needed me to be the bad guy, I suppose.

I guess I am more truthful than most, though when I do it, it's usually not even for a very significant reason...