PLEASE BE KIND.
i’m 27 years old and I literally cannot lie. like at all. I HAVE to blurt out the truth or it weighs me down the whole day. and when I do try to lie, it’s so obvious the other person can tell immediately.
it’s messing me up both at work and in my personal life. interviews feel exhausting because it’s basically a game of selling yourself, and I freeze up. feels like lying. & in normal conversation, i’m not mean or anything but I can’t help being super unfiltered.. and I never know how that lands.
I just want to communicate without tripping over myself, but I can’t figure out how to soften things or play the ‘social game’ without it feeling fake.
anyone else deal with this? how do you survive interviews and life in general when you’re stuck in the gold cage (derogatory) of honesty?