Anonymous
Post 01/03/2025 16:31     Subject: Are you ever shocked when people lie about easily proven things?
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.
Anonymous
Post 01/03/2025 15:51     Subject: Are you ever shocked when people lie about easily proven things?
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
Post 01/03/2025 15:08     Subject: Are you ever shocked when people lie about easily proven things?
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
Post 01/03/2025 15:07     Subject: Are you ever shocked when people lie about easily proven things?
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
Post 01/03/2025 15:06     Subject: Are you ever shocked when people lie about easily proven things?
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
Post 01/03/2025 15:06     Subject: Are you ever shocked when people lie about easily proven things?
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
Post 01/03/2025 14:50     Subject: Are you ever shocked when people lie about easily proven things?
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
Post 01/03/2025 14:33     Subject: Are you ever shocked when people lie about easily proven things?
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).