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Honesty, they say, is the best policy. But can you go overboard with truthfulness? This recent TikTok trend says yes, for better or worse. 

People are sharing brutally honest answers about mundane things in life. These clips have so far touched on slow walkers, French tips, and picky eating. And as you’ll come to see, these responses go deep. 

Scroll through this list we’ve compiled and see if you can relate to any of these - many of which have already inspired memes online.

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cerinamroth
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is a beautiful country. I would say "Be the change you want to see in the world" but unfortunately with a two-party system, it's very hard to change anything. There is just such an "Us vs Them" mindset; it's like watching toddlers bicker.

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We appreciate people who “keep it real” and speak their minds. But being brutally honest has a downside. Psychologist Dr. Jonice Webb calls it “an easy out” for hurtful people.  

“By adding the word ‘honest’ after ‘brutal,’ they are informing you that they are about to hurt you, but that you should not experience any hurt because they’re just being honest,” Dr. Webb wrote in an article for Psychology Today

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Roger9er
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think it's a serious lack of education if you eat with your mouth open. Ew.

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Don't listen to me
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those people who step off an escalator and just stop there looking around or still talking, with all people behind them piling up to get off too.

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BeesEelsAndPups
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is sweet. I hope my kids have this kind of relationship when they're grown. I have only brothers, but we're all close, even if we all live on different continents

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Besides being a cop-out, Dr. Webb says brutal honesty may also be an act of manipulation. 

“It’s also likely to make you feel that you’re wrong for experiencing the hurt. That’s gaslighting."

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom was the strongest, and yet most fragile person, but still held it together and was always there for me when I needed her, until she lost her battle with breast cancer 20 years ago. I am what you might call agnostic pagan. Yet when I am panicking or desperate, I pray to her, because I know her energy is still a part of the universe so ot brings me a small measure of comfort.

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Roger9er
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You don't NEED to shave, girls. The perfect body doesn't exist.

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Alexandra
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If people are late, go ahead with whatever you were planning to do, with or without them. Never accomodate this behaviour, because this behaviour is controlling you. It's your time they're wasting.

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Dr. Webb’s main problem with brutal honesty is that it rids the conversation of its true message. 

“By being self-described ‘straight shooters,’ the brutally honest risk hurting the feelings of the receiver, raising their defenses so that they want to distance and protect themselves instead of responding in a useful way,” she wrote.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same, I love my bed, I love napping and reading in my bed then sleeping in my bed. I am a cat in human body I'm sure of it.

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Most of the texts you’ll read in this list have strong emotions behind them. Their message comes with some extra spice. According to Dr. Webb, it could be a sign of childhood emotional neglect. 

“Families that are not tuned in to the subtleties and complications of emotions (i.e., emotionally neglectful families) are more likely to be unaware of how their words affect others’ feelings. Therefore, they produce more perpetrators and victims of brutal honesty.”

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep, my dad was my first heartbreak. The day I head him telling my mum I was too fat and would never find a husband if didn't get off my fat a*s, was the day our relationship broke. I then later found out he was a convicted sex offender when I tried to foster (with the husband, I'd never find because I was too fat). We went NC after I'd heard him tell 5 different stories about how he got the conviction and found out the truth from the Social Worker who was working with us.

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Brutal honesty isn’t advised in romantic relationships. For neuropsychologist Dr. Sanam Hafeez, it shows a lack of compassion with the primary intent to inflict pain. 

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In an interview with Well+Good, she spoke about how being too blunt with a partner can create an unbalanced dynamic. It could also be damaging to the receiver’s self-esteem. 

“There is no healthy way to sustain a relationship where one partner is held in such high esteem compared to the other.”

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Rinso The Red
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Personally, I cannot nap. Take me forever to doze off and then when I wake, I'm not refreshed, I'm trapped in another dimension.

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Foxxy says Hello
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tell that to my son who would rather starve than eat something he doesn't like. It's even a battle to get him to try new foods.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! That's my son too.. if I try to make him eat something he doesn't like, he'll go to bed hungry before he'll eat it. It drives me crazy.

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Steve Hall
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Eat what you want to eat and don't criticize others for what they eat.

Lil Miss Hobbit
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I won't criticize if they are polite about it. But if we are at a family dinner and they can't eat the main course because they just don't like it? Yeah no.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What about people with sensory issues? I can’t stand most forms of potato, potatoes taste okay but I can’t eat them because of the texture. Fries and potato chips are the only form of potato I’ve tried that I actually like because they have a different texture. Chicken (along with every other bird meat I’ve tried) tastes really dry to me, so I normally don’t eat it. It’s not a matter of me (or other “picky eaters”) growing up, maybe you should grow up and let other people live their life without being bothered by morons who get “the ick” when someone doesn’t want to eat pasta salad or whatever a “normal food” is.

Rinso The Red
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And some of us just don't like some things! All those "favourssss" doesn't make those foods taste better to me. Some of it's genetic - Licorice tastes like a*s to me, but some love it. Cilantro tastes like soap, so I'll skip the Guac thanks.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i can't really eat them because i get overstimulated if i eat specific food. I'm autistic (I'm not using this to excuse my reactions I'm just saying how it affects me) so I'm a lot more sensitive to things on my face, i could start crying if i have a bad enough runny nose

somnomania (she/her, queer)
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

you must not be autistic, sir, or have other sensory issues. i once had a baby panic attack over trying to eat cottage cheese. we don't choose when these things happen, or why, or how. f**k off and let people eat what they want to, and not eat what they don't.

Mother Of Birb
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What about people with ARFID like myself? Do we need to grow up? Grow out of an ED?

DC
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

... these are, truly, just dietary choices. There's no ethics involved, there's no obligations to be met, it's just preferences that nobody has direct control over. A little communication rectifies this in about 99 %, and the remaining few where this won't, would find something else to be angry about and complain, because that's their goal, make you miserable, make you spend more and more effort, to be met with more and more hostility. I consider myself a picky host in regard to them.

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Green Machine
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

DND is the closest thing to feeling like you have no phone. All the dings, pings, and buzzes don't make me flinch anymore 'cause I know it can't be my phone lol. I do love it.

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This isn’t to discourage straightforwardness. However, Dr. Webb encourages truth with compassion, instead. 

“Basically, brutal honesty shuts down communication. Truth with compassion encourages communication.”

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Steve Hall
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought chemistry class was going to be great, I was so wrong.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sometimes I find that I end up looking forward to sleeping and dreaming like I'm about to go to watch a movie.

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Foxxy says Hello
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm the opposite. I would rather die of dehydration than drink sparkling water. Absolutely nasty stuff.

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Foxxy says Hello
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sadly from my experience many (not all of course) Asians don't respect the native flora and fauna. They quite often push in line and also hog/block attractions preventing others having a look.

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Alexandra
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm a bit on the fence about gossip. It's a way to bond with your co-workers, but it can also be the cause of toxicity in the workplace, so it's not without its dangers.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Never understood the issue with them. The not really anymore scary or cute than any insect.

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Lyone Fein
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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Um, disabled people ? Someone with arthritis? A mother with a child? Maybe you are the exception?

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