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4:07pm June 30, 2014
Anonymous asked: Do you have any tips on how to lie? How to remember to lie? I keep being in situations where I need to lie and I forget and tell the truth.

Does anyone else have tips?

I know that it’s very hard for me sometimes, because I have to keep the lies straight, and that’s a pain in the ass, so I don’t do it too often.

But I would think it would be a matter of somehow finding ways to remind yourself of situations in which lying is necessary, and then going from there.

(Also something I didn’t realize – it’s also okay to lie to protect your privacy.  I had to be taught that explicitly.  That if someone is asking extremely invasive questions, it’s okay to tell them something that isn’t quite true, or isn’t true at all, if nothing else will get them to stop prying.  I had no idea.)

How to remember, is the problem, and I don’t have any answers.  Maybe other people would know.  Like ways to signal to yourself “this is a situation where telling the truth could do harm to someone”.

I’m not exactly an expert on lying, I just know that I'm willing to do it now, to a degree I didn’t used to be.

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  1. felixrocketship reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
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    This is funny (but, not really) because in some situations I’m terrible at lying and in others I’m extremely capable. I...
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  5. clatterbane reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    Reblogging mostly for the part about privacy.Boundaries are a thing. You’re not required to tell nosy, prying people...
  6. sleepwakehopethoughts said: This is helpful. “It’s also okay to lie to protect your privacy.” That needed to be explicit. Thank you.
  7. katisconfused said: I would suggest maybe using a newsroom sort of strategy of if you can manage just tell “technically true” things that are not totally lying? If I get pressed I panic so I try to keep to things that have some degree of truth I can latch to.