Been on my mind for so many reasons: politicians, DD who has learnt to this year and does it shockingly well, MIL who I'm NC with mainly because of blatant lying my DH doesn't see. (She usually lies to avoid accepting she has made a mistake, but the last straw was not apologising for shouting at and roughly handling my non-verbal autistic son when she didn't know I could see. Instead she lied and said I was lying about what I saw.)
DH knows he is probably Aspergers. I'm not and I can lie, but feel very uncomfortable about it. I feel uncomfortable withholding info even when it's for other people's benefit, that feels like lying, but on balance I do it if it seems necessary.
Meanwhile, I've had times where my DH has told somebody something that has done no one any good. It hasn't occurred to him that he has sometimes said things that worry or upset people and he's a very sensitive, caring person.
He knows he's probably got Aspergers especially as it was brought up by a relationship counsellor last year and we've both suspected for ages. However, he struggles with the idea that his judgment may be more black and white than most of us about this and I find his principles very appealing. Maybe the rest of us are wrong?
Some people seem to find lying very easy. Do they know they're lying? How do they square it with themselves?