Are you dishonest?

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After reading up on Aspergers Syndrome, one of the things that often comes up is honesty. My boyfriend is the most dihonest person I've ever met.

I'm mostly an honest person, sometimes too honest ("I think you put on weight over the summer" or "eww, your face is all red).
In what way is your boyfriend dishonest?

I am honest.

Ill be glaringly honest if i want to annoy or get rid of someone, generally im mostly honest but within reason. Although I can be very dishonest if i want to.

I try to be honorable, but I am sometimes dishonest.

I prefer to be honest, I'm able to be dishonest but I prefer to be honest.

Though, the honesty is a sterotype, while there are a lot of honest folks with AS, we're people just like everybody else and some of us do lie (for what ever reason).

I am usually very honest, but that does not mean I am perfect and have never told a lie. I have told some lies in the past. Over time, I have learned to be less brutally honest without lying, by acknowledging that some things (like telling someone they have put on weight) do not need to be said.

I hate lying.

Unfortunately, I learned at an early age that well-placed dishonesty could help me to avert undesirable social situations and avoid unwanted scrutiny or criticism.

It grew into a habit, and became a nearly unconscious reaction to many situations.

Probably part of the reason that no one is close to me. I find it very difficult to maintain trust.

This is one of the things about me I dislike the most.

Sometimes I lie to escape certain situations, but other than that for the most part I am honest, so yes. However, people usually think that I am lying, like significant others, it's very frustrating.

I am a lot of the time, unless I can predict that a situation will become bad or cause stress to someone else... but I still don't lie, I just "leave out details" that would make things worse or more concerning if people knew.

I do lie, though, if someone insists on a reason for something and I don't have one. There are only so many times you can say "I don't know" without people getting pretty upset at times, so I feel backed into a corner to give a forced response. Half of the time I'm pretty sure my responses don't really explain anything or make sense according to the situation, but I don't really care at that point... any reason that will shut them up works for me, even if they only get quiet due to being confused, lol.

I have unfortunately learned with some people though, that the truth makes even less sense than a flat out lie to them... they would prefer the lie because it makes them feel more comfortable rather than me giving an honest response and them not being able to connect to it in any way. They get very awkward, so I suppose at times I do lie just to please other people, especially if I know darn good and well my reasoning really isn't as logical to them as I would like to think it is.

I prefer to tell the truth all the time. There is something in my head that doesn't allow me to be dishonest. I don't know what it is

What is truth? A copout?

The important thing is to give the right answer.

Not really. Usually I'm honest, being dishonest can be quite hard.

I'm lying to you as I type.

Only kidding.

I'm honest almost to a fault. Aside from morality issues, I find it much easier to be honest. This way I don't have to remember all the lies I told and to whom I told them.

when it comes down to it, i am very honest.
however in this world, it seems a lot of people are intolerable unless lied to.