Jane
If you are not telling people, you do not WANT to tell them in the first place. Why do your friends have to know about every bone that you have broken. Those things are unimportant. Nobody has to know anything UNLESS the information involves the people in a certain relationship or group. If the nature of the info concerns no one else but you, and all that worries you is that you cannot disclose your secrets as easily as your peers, then take pride. Why would you want your life to be an open book, a drama in which friends relish? Remember that ‘secrets’ spread fast, and that when you least expect it you will hear in the lunchroom something totally different from what you heard first. (I know friends are great at keeping secrets, but as well-intentioned as they are, sometimes they let the info slip to just ONE person. Of course, they love you and they make the person SWEAR not to tell a soul, which of course, they do. The process then repeats. You get my point). Continue to keep stuff to yourself if you do not feel comfortable otherwise. Buy a journal if you REALLY have to tell. Or even better, sign up at a really good pen pal service, and chatter all you want. I do both. Remember that keeping stuff to yourself is NORMAL, and that we all have different masks for different situations. YOu are not lying, you are just protecting your privacy, which is your inherent right as an individual.
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