Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Bare facts often bounce off people, because a fact by itself offers no route into the imagination. A story arrives differently, getting past the guard, supplying a place to stand, letting somebody feel their way into something they would have argued with had it come as a flat statement. Invention used this way is not deception; it is a delivery method for what is otherwise unreceivable.

If you have something true that keeps failing to land, stop restating it and describe one concrete instance instead. One person, one afternoon, one specific detail. Persuasion is often just giving the listener somewhere to imagine themselves standing.