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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience yes. If you are close to someone with ADD or ASD they can’t keep their public best behavior on 24/7 and unless they really worked on it, they have no positive coping methods to deal with their inevitable mistakes, thus they lie. 
Sadly, in many cases they’ve been lying to cover up their mishaps for so long they’ve convinced themselves there is no mishap and whomever is pointing it out is attacking them.

It’s a bad cycle. And kids will copy it.

The mistake, the denial, the excuses, the blaming others, the lying, the storming off.

It’s developmentally quite juvenile. [/quote]

I will say, they do lie at work or in public or especially with customer service (missed a bill, lost a payment, didn’t update something, returning beyond 90 days).  But most people give others the benefit of the doubt and don’t interact enough to see the pattern repeat and repeat and repeat.  A spouse most certainly will, or maybe a close coworker. [/quote]

NP with ADHD. I don’t lie when I miss a bill or lose something. I honestly tell them I made a mistake. Usually my obsessive calendar and list keeping keeps me on track, but sometimes things do slip through the cracks.

As for returns, I have lost count of how much crap I have had to write off because I miss the return window. It’s why I never order things online any more. So some of us have ADD and just suffer the consequences without trying to cover up.[/quote]

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