Definition: Given a real-life anecdote of a complex ethical situation, generate a suitable title that describes the main event/root cause of the situation. Imagine that the given text is a social media post, and you have to write the title of the post, so the users can decide to read the main text or not.
Input: Throwaway account because some of my ‘friends’ follow me.

My mum cares about me and my life at school and regularly asks if I have friends and whether I’m happy or not. Usually I’d say yes because I want to keep her happy but recently it seems as though I’ve started to have less and less friends and I’m not sure who is a fake or a real friend. I decided to tell the truth to her as lying isn’t getting me anywhere. 

Bit of extra info. I don’t really think of myself as a popular person - which I’m ok with, I’m an introvert and most of the time I’d prefer to be by myself than with friends. This is the case with most of the family, so we don’t go out much and my mum wanted to change this because she thinks I don’t like being with myself.

Going back to me telling her the truth about not thinking I have any friends. She asked one day “u/Steve-Irwins-Koala do you have any friends?” I said not really, she asked if I enjoy going out and I say not really e.t.c.

When we got home, she asked my dad a question, like which of these bin bags is the right one for our bin and he said I’m not sure. She immediately used this as an excuse to start complaining about how my dad doesn’t do anything, about because he’s partly on the spectrum - barely - that his genes passed into mine and now I’m Autistic. She shouts that she is tired of me being antisocial and my dad being a nuisance. Don’t think I am autistic btw.

I’m starting to think that telling her the truth has not gotten me anywhere and might actually affect some important aspect of mine and my dads life.

TL;DR : mum always asks if I’m ok at school, I usually say yes but today I said no, she immediately starts flipping out when we get home and fights with me and my dad.



telling my mum about my status with friends