I know how to talk around the truth now

Dear Delyara, That skill disturbs me more than I admit. I know how to answer without answering. How to tell the safe version. How to redirect before anyone notices the shift in my face. How to keep a conversation moving while the real thing stays untouched just outside the room. The secret has been in my life long enough that it no longer feels like one hidden fact. It feels like a social language I learned too well. I don’t know what it would feel like to be fully unedited anymore. That realization feels sadder than the original hiding.