Are you 100% truthful about everything you tell people, either on this site or in real life?

I am not a squash.

Unless you want to quibble about “omission” not being truthful, I say yes. I hate lying but I also see no need to blurt out every detail.

I always never lie.

As Washington told his dad when he cut down the cherry tree, I cannot tell a lie. Popeye did it!

Real life: always honest.

Fluther, mostly honest, but I try to obfuscate personal details.

To start with: I am not upset with the person in question for doing what he did. I think it was likely a complex coping mechanism. I do not personally feel hurt by it.

However: I think that others have every right to react differently and have every right to feel hurt. I’m getting really sick of all these false equivalencies. A singular lie is different from making up an entire fake persona. A lie by omission is different from making up an entire fake persona. Having an avatar that is not of you is not even a lie, since there was never any agreement that avatars have to be photos of us. This should all be obvious. You are making up false equivalencies in order to try to make people look ridiculous for having the audacity to be hurt over being lied to. They are not ridiculous for feeling that way. It is hurtful to be lied to. It is okay to feel hurt. They are allowed to feel what they’re feeling. Stop being the feelings police. It is not productive and it is not doing anything to honor our friend.

To the question: Yes, I am 100% authentic on this site. I am perhaps even more authentic on this site than I am in real life, since I am less afraid to speak my mind when I have some anonymity. Many of us on this site are baring our souls for the world to see and that is a vulnerable, uncomfortable thing to do. I don’t ask everyone to do the same. But I appreciate the people who do. It lets us better understand others’ humanity by giving us the opportunity to learn about people who have different life experiences than our own.

Beautiful answer, @Mariah. I have shared so much heartache here. Fluther has experienced the hardest times of my life the past few years. Foreclosure, bankruptcy, not having any money until payday and needing to go to the food bank, near death illnesses, nursing homes, death. The worst anyone can deal with. I have never lied.

My family has made lifelong friends from this site by telling the truth.

I can’t forget the time I shit into a Tupperware container for my father to take to my mother who was in the hospital with C-dif after her ruptured brain aneurysm. My fecal transplant saved my mother’s life for the time being. @GailCalled ate that shit up. pun intended. :D

I’m 99.9 percent accurate. Just check out my profile pic which is the real me.