Or do any of you,consider yourselves to be liars?
Used to lie a LOT, for no good reason.
Taught myself to stop.
Now I only ever withhold information (the majority of the time) or tell tiny lies when giving information is required and it's something I don't want to share (less often).
I'm not the best at lying, not because of the feelings attached, but because I struggle with my concentration levels, so if I have to think of a lie under time pressure, my reaction time/how I act is easily seen as different. I'm good at planning lies ahead, though.
I am, however, extremely good at making people think they know a lot more than they do while not lying, but instead precisely withholding.
Yes, I am a pathological liar.
The difference between a pathological liar and a compulsive liar: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/pathological-liar-vs-compulsive-liar.html
I always lie if I believe it will benefit me more than the truth would, which is often the case.
I lie for a lot of different reasons:
- to save my own ass.
- to avoid doing something I don't want to do.
- to avoid conflict when I can't be bothered dealing with it.
- to manipulate people.
- to attain something that couldn't be attained without lying.
- to avoid having to share something (money etc.)
- to pretend to be someone I'm not in order to deceive another person.
- to feign emotion in order to blend in.
- to avoid conversation.
- to get out of a conversation with someone when I'm sick of talking to them.
- to avoid hurting my daughter's feelings, so I don't have to listen to her whine about it.
- to hide the truth (about myself or something else I don't want anyone to know about).
- for personal amusement.
- just to get a reaction.
And sometimes I'll tell someone I'm going to do something knowing full well that I had no intentions of doing it.
i lie a lot but mostly because i find it funny to come up with creative answers to questions and I usually fess up pretty fast.
Like somebody: "why are you late?"
Me: "When I was driving here one of my tires fell off and rolled down a hill and hit this Jamaican man so I had to buy him a new bobsled."
Me: "Nah, that didn't happen - i just slept in." :D
see? ;)
"What about lies of omission?"
I've met more people that use that to justify their lies or make it easier on themselves than people being comfortable with bold faced ones.
Personally I'd not call it a lie, I'd call it a looser form of disinformation. It's manipulative, but not quite lying from my views on it.
by MissCommunicationi lie a lot but mostly because i find it funny to come up with creative answers to questions and I usually fess up pretty fast.
Like somebody: "why are you late?"
Me: "When I was driving here one of my tires fell off and rolled down a hill and hit this Jamaican man so I had to buy him a new bobsled."
Me: "Nah, that didn't happen - i just slept in." :D
see? ;)
Piles?
I'd argue a person not being a liar on some level is a sign of mental deficiency. People lying is very common, which has me more intrigued by those who find themselves unable to.
Seriously, even children do it without needing to model off of another to learn it:
Majority of people can't even go ten to fifteen minutes without lying. It becomes even more apparent when you're used to looking for tells.