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Feel the need to lie about things or join in on a conversation you know little or nothing about, just to fit in - to be socially accepted?

Do you consciously try to stop yourself from doing this?

No, I feel no need to do this. Once you get over peer pressure and seeking the approval of others then these issues pretty much have limited impact on your life. I'm happy to let others huddle about talking crap/gossip/celebrities while I amuse myself doing other things. I am rarely motivated by FOMO (fear of missing out), it probably helps I've never been on Facebook or engaged in any kind of social media. I see those tools as ultimately quite damaging to society and people in general. It's mostly about one-up-manship and promoting individuals sense of narcissism. Selfies are the ultimate expression of narcissism in my book. Everyone's trying to be a celebrity for just living their lives. No thanks.

I used to feel this way, when I wasn't confident in myself and felt the need to change who I was to fit in. Nowadays, I don't pay any mind to it. As an example, I hate football, I've never liked it. Lunchtime conversations, both when I was in school and now at work, inevitably center around football a good amount of the time. I used to try to join in and pretend to like it, but now I have no problem letting them know that I find the football conversations terribly boring.

The more that you lie to try to gain social acceptance, the less social acceptance you'll gain in my opinion.

Yes.

No.

I hate sports, yet to get along with the sports freaks at work, I've begun paraphraseing what they say and repeating it back to them, but with a negative twist.

He: "Kobe Bryant is AWESOME!"

Me: "As great as Kobe is, the rest of the team should learn to play effectively without his contribution."

Unfortunately, this usually leads to prolonging a completely BORING conversation.

At least they've stopped calling me a "clueless dweeb".

I personally don't do it.
Though I am told it is quite common for humans to do this in order to fit in.

Nope, if I don't know anything about it I wont engage.

Like cats & laser pointers... how very fnordish of you.

Yes, whenever I have a conversation with people, I re-run everything I've said and if at least one thing is a lie, I feel horrible afterwards. Converstaions just make me feel horrible in general because if they are in groups, I try screaming over people to fit in, but still not noticed; on one-on-one conversations, I end up accidentally be overly honest sometimes and say something that may be mean in my oppinion, but others end up agreeing with me... I feel encouraged by people to say the wrong things. I try to stay away from people at school, but I'm lost without one of my close friends or a comforting destraction.

I know how you feel, I do the same thing with talking to people... re-run things over in my head, and feel bad if anything I've said might have been dishonest. Once I actually told a friend that I lied to her because I felt so bad... she was pretty understanding thank goodness.

I still lie about stupid things. I won a t-shirt at work, and wore it to work on the weekend. My boss asked me if I washed it. I told her yes, because a part of me thought if I told her no, that she'd think I was gross or weird for not washing it before wearing it.... I then discovered that her asking me was because she wanted to know if it shrunk at all :/ I felt pretty dumb.

I'm not good at lying it feels bad and I can't master it beyond lying like keeping secrets or stuff that is obovious that if I say the truth will pointlessly hurt them. like the "am I fat" question.

I don't get how you do that. o.O I'll usually just be like "um yeah sure, I don't really follow sports" then carry on with what I was doing. I really don't get the point of sports. well no. I get why people play them, but not why people watch and focus so much on them. rather boring to me, same with video games and airsoft. I have friend who will watch videos of both and they try to show me but ugh boring. I love playing games and airsoft but watching others is pointless.