So my cousin and her husband came over and initially she started praising me for writing and then she said that I kept lying and making up stories in my childhood as well. So we stayed in a different state and she'd come to visit around 10 years ago.
I told her there were porcupines and she believed it. But apparently my parents said it was not true and not to believe the nonsense i simply keep blabbering. (They are a whole can of worms fr) but the truth is there were porcupines. I remember them. Rn i googled it and there were reports of porcupine attacks in a town less than a mile away from the house we stayed at. It isn't a big deal but idk i feel everything i say seems to be taken like a lie now or im just being paranoid.
Kids make up stories and lie its normal even if I've done it, it ain't a big deal but how do you stop people from bringing it up as a backhanded compliment or to make you feel bad about stuff you said when you were like 6 or getting rid of the paranoid fear that anything suprising I say will seem like I'm lying.