Are you ever shocked when people lie about easily proven things?

[Anonymous]

There is a young woman at my job who claims she was a collegiate athlete in a sport where you typically need to be tall. She is short and overweight, so this was surprising.

Well, curiosity got the best of me and I looked her up. Not only is she not on any of her school rosters, she has a robust public social media presence with no mention of/pictures of her being a college athlete but plenty about other extracurriculars she was involved in.

So delusional! (And she is not a nice person, so I don’t feel bad posting this).

[Anonymous]

It never shocks me because my stepfather was a compulsive liar. Ridiculous stuff.

The all-time craziest, which infuriated me, was when we had my mother's parents over for dinner one night and he told everyone at the table he had won a bronze medal in the olympics for some track and field thing -- high jump or shot put or something. That guy was never at the %$#ing olympics. He wasn't even an athlete at all. I got pissed off and demanded to see the medal and he said he didn't know where it was. Idiot.

[Anonymous]

My aspie spouse and kid lie like this.

I basically can’t trust them with anything important nor their verbal responses.

Their lies rarely make sense too. Like my kid telling her friends she saw a movie already, yet it’s not out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a young woman at my job who claims she was a collegiate athlete in a sport where you typically need to be tall. She is short and overweight, so this was surprising.

Well, curiosity got the best of me and I looked her up. Not only is she not on any of her school rosters, she has a robust public social media presence with no mention of/pictures of her being a college athlete but plenty about other extracurriculars she was involved in.

So delusional! (And she is not a nice person, so I don’t feel bad posting this).

Weird

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It never shocks me because my stepfather was a compulsive liar. Ridiculous stuff.

The all-time craziest, which infuriated me, was when we had my mother's parents over for dinner one night and he told everyone at the table he had won a bronze medal in the olympics for some track and field thing -- high jump or shot put or something. That guy was never at the %$#ing olympics. He wasn't even an athlete at all. I got pissed off and demanded to see the medal and he said he didn't know where it was. Idiot.

Lol

[Anonymous]

Some of these are mental disorders others are personality disorders. Doesn’t matter, effect is the same. People think they’re chronic liars and unreliable.

[Anonymous]

They usually don't care when they get caught. I had a classmate who lied all the time. Once she told some students that a teacher called them stupid. They went to the teacher and asked about that. The teacher confronted her and she just kept repeating: "I never said that, they're lying". Everyone felt awkward except for her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It never shocks me because my stepfather was a compulsive liar. Ridiculous stuff.

The all-time craziest, which infuriated me, was when we had my mother's parents over for dinner one night and he told everyone at the table he had won a bronze medal in the olympics for some track and field thing -- high jump or shot put or something. That guy was never at the %$#ing olympics. He wasn't even an athlete at all. I got pissed off and demanded to see the medal and he said he didn't know where it was. Idiot.

Whoa! I was going to share that my dad, who was in many ways a wonderful man, had a crazy lying habit. I had to sit through a meal where he told my SIL all about how my brother almost made it to the Olympics as a diver. I mean—so awkward. This was definitely not his worst lie but probably his most obvious one. My brother is NOT an athlete!

I don’t know what compelled him to lie like that. Interesting that a pp above said her aspy husband lies, because I’ve long thought my father probably had autism.