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Minorkos
Feb 20, 2010

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

They are children of parents that realize they can get out of parenting by just using the premise kids believe everything as their only parenting technique until the kids just grow up believing making up nonsense for every single thing is just normal social behavior.

"we can't get icecream because the icecream store closed down, also do your chores because the boogie man will eat you also your dad didn't leave he just is being a spy"

now that i think about it, his dad was exactly like that

this explains everything

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Owlofcreamcheese
May 22, 2005
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Buglord

Minorkos posted:

now that i think about it, his dad was exactly like that

this explains everything

Like there is an okay level of kidding around or telling fairy tales but it's totally a lovely parent staple to just tell whatever lie makes parenting easiest nonstop until the kids grow up thinking that is how normal communication works.

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Minorkos posted:

now that i think about it, his dad was exactly like that

this explains everything

A spy!?!?

Panfilo
Aug 27, 2011

EXISTENCE IS PAIN😬
I always thought people did this because either they thought their lives were pathetic (or their lives really were pathetic). I had a classmate in high school like this, she used to tell the craziest stories, like how she owned a business and was actually a millionare, and how she was a nymphomaniac and loved watching porn. In reality she was a fat ginger girl that smelled bad and I think she was just desperate to try to impress people enough not to be repulsed by her 3 minutes into meeting her.

a whole buncha crows
May 8, 2003

WHEN WE DON'T KNOW WHO TO HATE, WE HATE OURSELVES.-SA USER NATION (AKA ME!)
I recently found out my best friend has been lying alot, as in he is in ten grand debt, cheated on his gf and so many little lies on top its hard to fathom how anyone can live like that

Beef Turret
Jul 9, 2009

by Lowtax

Nation posted:

I recently found out my best friend has been lying alot, as in he is in ten grand debt, cheated on his gf and so many little lies on top its hard to fathom how anyone can live like that

Liars have the best memories

The Whole Internet
May 26, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

sinking belle posted:

I maintained a lie about having loads of nonexistent video games and video game accessories and Pokemon cards for about a year when I was ~10 because I didn't think anything real in my life was worth talking about. Now I just try to be boring instead.

I lied about being from another state in college, because i felt pretty boring.

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Henker
May 5, 2009

I know this dude who always lies about being a racecar driver and owning a bunch of exotic cars and making millions of dollars in real estate despite the fact that he lives with his parents. We all know he's full of poo poo so we just humor him.

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