Do you keep it real on here? Or do you tell peeps what they want to hear?

[Nero]

Do you keep it real on here? Or do you let peeps go on in blissful ignorance of reality?

[discarded]

I keep it real. It doesn't do anyone any favors to sugar coat things or tell them what they want to hear. I wish, like hell, that people would've gave me a dose of reality BEFORE I got my lower surgery (FtM). Could've saved myself 7 grand and a whole lot of depression, anguish, surgery time, ect.

So I'm blunt...I think we (a collective we, as in transgendered individuals) need to NOT have blinders on. We need to weigh the pros and cons of our decisions BEFORE we make them. A lot of us get so concerned with that end result, we fail to realize how we'll get there, and whether it's truly the right choice (especially in the case of FtMs, who are often way too optimistic about the lower surgeries we have available---I know I was).

[Annwyn]

I think everyone on these forums know that I keep it REAL beoootch

[gina]

My feeling is this: you are only fooling yourself if its anything else but real....but just like any other forum you always have a small percentage of those who think they will win a award if they BS everyone. I am always honest with others, it the only way of handling issues.

[Lisbeth]

Do you keep it real on here? Or do you let peeps go on in blissful ignorance of reality?

Ah, sweetie, I live in blissful ignorance of reality... or... um... I might become aware of the bad things that have happened to me.

[lisagurl]

I think everyone on these forums know that I keep it REAL beoootch

I do not reply to half the dreamers but blatant fallacy need to be noted.

[Laura91]

I am always honest about what I say here. It seems like an incredibly stupid waste of time to go on to a forum such as this one and spout a bunch of false crap. Okay........well.....I guess that I COULD have mentioned my beautiful 100 room mansion and the millions of dollars that I possess....in my mind. 

[Kate]

Do you keep it real on here? Or do you let peeps go on in blissful ignorance of reality?

Who am I to decide what's "real" for someone else?

~Kate~

[lisagurl]

Reality has many faces. The one in our head and the consensus reality we all use to stay alive.

[NicholeW.]

Telling reality rather than fluff doesn't have to always be blunt, harsh, in-your-face, and alienating, although, there are times when it will be taken as such if the personal investment of the questioner is deeply embedded enough in what answers they get and mostly expected.

Putting up straw-men around here seems like a very good way of watching them get burned to the ground. 

Although, being 'realistic' has a tendency to be different for different people. Our sense of what is and isn't realistic can range widely.

For instance, I know that Lisa has a very hardheaded sense of what she considers 'real.' But, I've been on boards with her for a long time and find her views challenge me very often and certainly make me consider what she says. Do our senses of 'reality' coincide. Sometimes they have and do, sometimes they diverge.

But, I always find her honest in presenting what she thinks and usually why. Given the gnomic style, it can be difficult to puzzle out sometimes. 

N~

[Alyssa M.]

To paraphrase Epimenides, all Internet forum posters are liars.

At this point in my life I'm not so sure what's "real" -- I'm sort of starting over with that. It can be a bit disorienting from time to time. Don't trust a word I say. That goes for just about anything you read on the Internet. Or see on the TV. Or read in the newspapers. Or hear from your college professors.

But no, I don't write anything that I don't believe, at least when I write it. I'm not a troll. (Spoken like a true troll! >)

Cheers!

~A.

[Just Mandy]

I keep it real always... but... I'm optimistic and I always see the glass as half full (no laughing from the crowd please). So my
truth, I admit might be tainted by optimism. But IT is still the truth.

Telling reality rather than fluff doesn't have to always be blunt, harsh, in-your-face, and alienating

Absolutely.

Amanda

[Pica Pica]

I keep it real, I'd contradict myself a lot less if i didn't.

[sd]

Real, but I try to sugar coat it.
The internet is a nasty place, I am just doing my part to make it pretty. 

[Sheila]

I tell it like I see it. Why would I BS someone on this computer. I tell the real story about me as that is all I know and all that I will tell.
Sheila

[Ell]

Do you keep it real on here? Or do you let peeps go on in blissful ignorance of reality?

i don't know about the expression, 'keepin' it real'
it's so 1999...
oh yeah, and i always have to do my pimp walk when i'm sayin' it.
ya know what i'm sayin'? yo

i think a lot of street slang is quite far from reality, and irritating to the ears and sensibilities.

[Lokaeign]

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

[Gracie Faise]

I lie, sorry :"[ I'm not a MtF game artist from san diego.

My name is hikuuni, im a 12 year old boy prostitue from the philipines. I sneak on my master's computer when he is asleep or too high on cocaine to notice i am gone.

[cindybc]

Ah, sweetie, I live in blissful ignorance of reality... or... um... I might become aware of the bad things that have happened to me.

"hee, hee, hee." I love that one

Of course I tell the truth when giving others support when needed and a pun now and again to embellish a quote. Sometimes I post a response story-style. 

For the exception:  of when I am telling some stories 

Cindy

[NicholeW.]

Do you keep it real on here? Or do you let peeps go on in blissful ignorance of reality?

i don't know about the expression, 'keepin' it real'
it's so 1999...
oh yeah, and i always have to do my pimp walk when i'm sayin' it.
ya know what i'm sayin'? yo

i think a lot of street slang is quite far from reality, and irritating to the ears and sensibilities.

I just love it when you pimp-walk out from under your rock and spout a gem, ellie!!