I Can't Lie

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It's not so much that I don't want to lie (I don't) as I can't. I've tried once or twice and failed. I simply couldn't come up with an alternate way that a situation played out.

I've given up trying at this point.

You're not the first person who's said something like this on here.

Can you give examples of situations in which you tried to lie but couldnt?

I almost can't ever lie in 'real time', however if there's a situation I can plan ahead where I know that I might need to lie (such as keeping something secret about myself and my condition), I can follow a script from my head that is somewhat passable.

I don't even try to lie in 'real time' anymore, I end up a stuttering mess.

I think that you're just too nervous.

Someone left a nasty comment on my profile at a site and my mom asked what it was and I just said "um... Something about a story I think..." It was a dead giveaway because that was the only alternate way that I could see for it to play out and it was poorly thought out because I remember almost everything...

I can't lie in real time, if I have forewarning I can usually pull a "white lie" off.

I'm a terrible liar. I can lie by omission, I guess. But having to not just realistically sell a lie with my tone of voice and everything enough to convince someone of something but THEN remember the details of what I've told someone so I don't later give myself away? Ugh. I can't handle the added effort to something that already is a strain for me generally.

Last edited by palindrome on 05 Apr 2013, 12:48 am, edited 1 time in total.

People can always tell when I'm lying so I don't try anymore.

Also I think that there's been many times people thought I was lying when i wasn't.

I guess that I "had to have been there" to understand that story! Lol!


The other person on Facebook was being a jerk by saying mean things to you? How does that incriminate you? Were you trying cover up having provoked the person, or what? You dont have to go into it. Im just curious.



But actually Im pretty much like that too... have to plan in advance to fib, or can lie by omission. But it is hard for me to lie by commision off the top of my head.

I'm the same. It's not so much a question of honesty as such, it's more the need to be accurate.

Same for me. Even lying by omission is hard to do, since people can tell if I'm not giving the whole story.

Yeah. And my mom knows by now not to insinuate that I'm lying, because we both very well know that if I was lying, everyone would know.

It still irritates my little sister that I start getting agitated when she insinuates that I'm lying. "Can't you take a joke? It's called a joke."

Yeah, well if it's a joke, it's not funny.

I have trouble lying, too. If I can keep my mouth shut, I can conceal things and I would never tell something somebody asked me to keep in confidence. But it seems I always wind up fessing up to stuff (like if I try to sock away a little "mad money", I usually wind up forking it over in the end).

I did manage to keep a 12-pack of beer hidden from the police under a blanket I was wrapped up in one night because I just stood there and stayed quiet and looked scared and tried to forget it was there.

I don't like to, but I can lie very convincingly & successfully when I want/need to.

But like many of us, I've been described as honest-to-a-fault, ie honest to the point that it's to my detriment to be so honest vs. telling the little white lies that can get people ahead in life in terms of career & financial advancement. These are the ones I'm more and more OK with telling, or "telling," via omission.

Sometimes impulsive speech combined with being completely honest = no chance to omit or conceal or fabricate a little white lie, but I have that better and better under control these days.

I can lie, and I'm smart enough to be fairly good at it; but I really don't like to. I'm more likely to seem like I'm hiding something just in normal conversation due to social anxiety, which I hate.

I run the full gamut of these sorts of traits: I'm honest, open, transparent and very likely to self-disclose, too. Anything to avoid being misunderstood and thought badly of.

I can really relate to the need to be accurate as well; it drives my boss crazy when he wants to summarize what I'm telling him, and consequently ends up oversimplifying it. I keep trying to tell him, you're trying to boil everything down too far, to the point where it doesn't reflect reality anymore. I'm too nitpicky about truth requiring exacting accuracy; he's too nitpicky about not letting the truth get in the way unnecessarily if it prevents having a simple understanding of the issue.

I couldn't lie even if I wanted to. I'm the stereotypical "open book" type of person.