Bullshitters- who do you think you're kidding?

[TooManyAnimals94]

Genuinely confused by this phenomenon. You know the people I'm talking about. They make stuff up that is obviously completely untrue and just expect you to nod along. If you point out their bullshit they backtrack at a billion miles an hour and make up a new story?!
Thread prompted by someone I have to work with sometimes and I left work today with full on bite marks in my tongue so I didn't tell her what I think of her and cause a whole scene.
As an example. I brought in scones for us at tea break. She tells this hugely dramatic story about how she's allergic to cream and she nearly died from having a hot chocolate with cream on 🙄
So, even though I found this story highly unlikely, I made sure we had separate knives for jam and cream. Me being messy, I managed to get cream on the jam knife so I was like wait! Don't use that, I'll get a fresh one. So she says 'Oh, just a bit on the knife is fine, don't worry'.

WHAT? YOU LITERALLY JUST SAID THE TINY AMOUNT OF CREAM ON A HOT CHOCOLATE NEARLY KILLED YOU??

Now I've read that back it seems like I'm being dramatic but it's just constant from the minute she gets there till she leaves, just constant full on lying and elaborate fantasies.

So if you know one (or you are one) why do they do it?

It's "definitely a known part of ADHD for some people" wow, please do share the peer-reviewed evidence base for your claim.

Unless you can do that you are trotting out disablist nonsense, which is quite apt for a thread about people who talk bullshit.

I've known people who have claimed multiple allergies - what they actually have is an eating disorder

I've lied about having an allergy to something specific because I really don't like it. The sight and taste make me vomit. You would not believe the amount of people who take this as a challenge to insert it into food sneakily or badger me to "Go on, just try a little bit, it won't hurt".

Saying I am allergic has stopped this stone dead but I shouldn't have to lie to someone so they don't put a fucking pepper in a dish because I'm obviously wrong about what I like and dislike

Also @Eeksteek not sure why you think you are qualified to spout this BS but it's simply not true. It's like saying everyone with BPD is violent. None of the people with ADHD I know, including myself, are pathalogical liars. And I know a fuckton of ND people who have the ability to not shit out lies about everything from their brand of toilet paper to exciting things they have done..

The one I know it is purely attention seeking. My ex was removed from my house after trying to kill me, it was quite a big thing in the village so obviously a lot of people knew about it.

She started showing people a scar on her arm and claiming that her ex BF had done it when he tried to kill her (conveniently, in another country). She made a huge fuss because she hated that people where worried about me and my children and not taking any notice of her. Lasted right up until her ex DH's best friend called her out in front of everyone in the local pub that she had told us all ages ago how she had actually done it. Her own father told her ex not to believe a word she said, he did for a long while but then woke up to how she had been playing him with her lies for years. If the medical qualifications she claimed to have through being a carer were true she would be more qualified than Sir Chris Whitty!

Since the call out over the "abuse" she now absolutely hates my guts...not sure how it was my fault but there you go.

Also she is the type that if she has told a lie often enough, in her head it is her alt truth, she actually convinces herself its true.

My sister does that she has a personality disorder.

It was discussed as part of my ADHD assessment with a psychiatrist?

I would do and have done the opposite. Call them out in front of people. Go over the details, and point out the contradictions. We had a friend like this , lies got more outrageous and we as a group called them out. Think after that they felt thoroughly humiliated and stopped it completely around us. I refuse to sit there and ignore this while the liar sits there thinking everyone is stupid.

Whengoodtimes it certainly wasn't asked by my psychiatrist in my ADHD assessment or in any of the extensive forms my family had to fill out as part of it?

I worked for a twitter blue tick grandiose narcissist once. It helps that she seems to genuinely believe every single bullshit claim she comes up with, whether it's a sob story about herself, or a list of her amazing(ly embelleshed) achievements, or or or. She was hard to work for.

However, she seems to have thousands of devoted followers who don't notice how often she contradicts herself, so they just feed the ego.

I knew someone like this. But it was more very exaggerated truths and extreme backtracking when trying to find out more
I have back problems so I asked her what the surgery she had on her back involved as she’s always telling people about her life saving back surgery. Turns out it was just a pain killing injection.

She said she was going to be on the Olympic swim team as a child but parents wouldn’t let her, but turns out her instructor just said she’d be good in the olympics.

I found this worse that outright lies, as I just never knew where the truth ended. She’s an attention seeker that loves drama I don’t think there’s anything else to it.

Are you talking about JM? 👨‍🍳

Nope! There's loads of these types about, isn't there. 😆

Someone I know tells people her husband is on a 6-figure salary. He isn't, and they live on a very rough estate. She also says he's due to get a knighthood (he definitely isn't) and that her daughter is on a tv show (no, she's not)

I used to know a woman like that.
Every single thing would be embellished. She went for a job as a teaching assistant but they were so amazed that they offered her a job as a teacher on the spot, but she turned it down because it wasn't fair on the other staff. (No, didn't happen.)
Her daughter was rushed to hospital and put on a drip, had countless tests and nearly died (her daughter was dehydrated and she was told to give her plenty of water)
A mutual friend was a heroin addict, had both legs removed and then died (mutual friend still alive and possessing both legs in the Midlands)
Her mother has been dead for over 15 years (her mother is also alive)
I cut her off when she tried telling me that my daughter's father isn't who I say it is!

Haha my brother had a girlfriend who claimed to have rescued a kitten from the track at Brands Hatch. She had a whole story about it 😭