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Some people misattribute stories to themselves, I think it's slightly different than usual lying from whole cloth. And sometimes it's just easier to say, "my friend" when telling a funny story instead of "a friend of a friend" and further degrees of separation. Neither bothers me particularly. I did have a friend who would always lie about kind of abuse he endured, which is odd because he was extremely secretive about the actual abuse he was receiving. So why not just reveal the real one? It was a lateral move.
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wiffle ball bat posted:whats worse than pathological liars is people who have genuinely amazing lives and cant shut the gently caress up about it. it's like, oh, you went to machu picchu for the weekend, flew back home to kick it with your rockstar pals, and then swam with sharks??? and youre showing me pictures of all of it??? gently caress you 
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Moon Atari posted:If you tell a story like that often enough and the actual event becomes distant enough it's not uncommon to accidentally create a false memory such that you genuinely believe your misattributed version happened. Although, unless you also have the sort of personality problems everyone else is talking about you can usually overcome the false memory if forced to think about it in detail or confronted with contradiction. Yeah, my best friend and I had the same English teacher in middle school, and the teacher called up her parents because she used words "she wasn't smart enough to know" in her homework (implying plagiarism). At one point I thought that happened to me, but my mother remembered correctly who it had been. At that point I was like, "Oh, you're right"--nothing incorrect intended and easily fixed 
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