I try to tell the truth all the time. Family members have questioned my version of the truth on occasion in my first memoir, even though I wrote it in a child's voice, looking back on an episode and acknowledging it was my version of things, but I am absolutely committed to only writing incidents that really happened in my own memory, and never making them up for the sake of the story. I recognize that memory plays tricks on us, and so I build this recognition into my story quite a lot, playing with my memories, letting my stream of consciousness run with the details, but never outright fabricating. My memoir is based on psychoanalysis, so I let myself have full rein with body-memories and dreams and other things, playing with them, but in my mind they are deeply true.