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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know why they do this, but my mom has gone from kind of understandable little lies that I could attribute to misremembering things or not wanting to get caught doing something wrong, to essentially pathologically lying every time she answers a question.  It drives me insane but also makes me wonder if this is an early symptom of dementia?

Example (she lives with us, and watches TV at night in the room where I work all day):
Me: Do you know what happened to the remote?
Her: I don't know what you're talking about.
Me: Oh it didn't work this morning, but it was working yesterday.
Her: I didn't notice anything.
Me: Oh.  I thought it looked like you might have tried to switch the batteries out to get it to work.
Her: Yes, I did.
Me: And did it work after that?
Her: No.
Me: . . . then why did you just say you didn't know what I was talking about?
Her: I don't know!

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat the heck.  And it's stuff like this: low-stakes, but continuous, and feels like a mix between being gaslit and being lied to by a teenager trying to get away with something.  It's baffling and I get pretty pissed off because it seems so deeply unnecessary, but it's constant.[/quote]

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