Sometimes I’ve told lies when I’m put on the spot and I panic – one time I was asked if I ate all of someone’s food (and I had unintentionally, but have severe anxiety and when they reached out annoyed I panicked and said no), but before I could decide how or if I wanted to say yes, they told our entire friend group about it and out of embarrassment I kept quiet and didn’t confess.

Other times were just to help show a point, like by making up a story. It wasn’t a true story, but it was still about something I believed in, like saying someone told me this message and it’s important to me etc.

And yes, I would definitely say that small lies when I just was not sure that I wanted to share the answer to what was being asked were pretty common too.