+221 For some reason, projecting your thoughts through speech or writing seems to make them truer and for lack of a better phrase more real. For example if you like someone and just keep it to yourself, it just seems like a flimsy thought that you're unsure of. But once you tell a friend through speech or text, it solidifies and you are more certain of your feelings, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There's a reason for that. The approximate technical term would be mythophobia. In laymen's terms, it's called The Fear of Being Accused of Lying.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Thank you. This idea has been in my head forever and ironically I felt it was too "flimsy," as you put it, to share with anyone.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

COULDN'T AGREE MORE.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sometimes after I share thoughts with people I feel they become more flimsy and unreal sounding than they were just in my head. As if I were overreacting internaly and only realised after I articulated it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago