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I very rarely lie. If I do it's because friends want me to do something that I don't want to.
Some of them are really pushy and the most common example is wanting to go swimming. I'm not a huge fan of public pools, and I have free access to the one at work if I ever do, so when saying 'I'm not in the mood' doesn't work, I'll claim to be on my period.

I've never lied to my mom. I admire and respect her too much, besides she accepts pretty much everything I've done, since she did it too in her youth.

I've caught a lot of liars, whether I point them out or not depends on the situation. Polite lies, I'll let slide. B.S. lies I'll point out almost maliciously.

I don't lie. I find loopholes in the questions and use them to my advantage.

As for spotting liars, I do it quite easily, but everyone lies even without meaning to and I think that's fine. Big lies, however... I can't stand them, I really can't.

I use to lie when I was younger, Not much younger, mind you.

I would do small white lies as a kid, [Who didn't?] But, When I got to be 15/16 years old, I started to really lie and eventually got into the habit of doing it a lot to protect myself from my foster parents at that time.

I didn't stop lieing until I got with my first boyfriend, Mostly because I didn't see the point of it, there was a time I did slip up but, that didn't really work out well. I kind of regret most of it now, My mom doesn't really believe anything I say unless she sees it herself, But, she does that with every one of her kids. Or at least I don't think she believes anything I say to her, But, that's another story.

Eh, a person I used to be really close to lied to me all the time. She was such a good liar that I didn't realize she was lying until one of my friends called her on her crap, because my friend realized that I really thought this person was telling the truth, but she wasn't. Granted, said friend is also a good liar, but she wouldn't lie to me. Half because she knows I'm a little on the naive side and would probably believe it, but half because she knows she doesn't have to, because I wouldn't hate her or anything no matter what that truth is, and I can keep secrets very well.

I lie a little, too, of course, but it's just white lies. And I only do so when I have to, because often times, I mix things up when it's a big lie. So, I don't. Plus, the guilt factor puts a heavy weight on my shoulders. So I try not to lie at all.

My sister lies a lot and is a very convincing liar. She's gotten me in trouble more times than I can count, and I haven't even lived at home in over 2 years.

I don't lie often. I mostly make up stories about friends, or take true stories and change them a little so they sound better. I don't tell them to anyone who would know the person who I'm telling the story about though, that way, no one gets offended, and no one is the wiser...but everyone had a good time listening to the story. =)

I used to lie a lot though, especially as a little kid. But around 12 or 13 I stopped because I was such a bad liar I always got caught and my parents would beat my ass. :sweat: Mostly because my sister made things sooo much worse and I was just the 'bad kid' who always lied, that even when I stopped lying, I was still 'lying' according to my parents and the nanny who molested me.

I also don't think that all lies are created equal, some are worse than others. I try not to ever tell a lie that I would be angry at someone else for saying to me.

I'm a really good liar, and I used to lie all the time. I felt the need to before I started accepting myself as I am and being able to express myself. Now it's pretty rare that I ever lie about anything.

Thankfully, I've only known two compulsive liars personally. There is one internet-famous girl that just baffles me with her countless lies, how heartless and intricate they all are, one to cover up the other and then just a random one for shock value. She gets caught in almost every single lie, but then she'll block and ignore anyone who brings it up. She'll never own up to it. She'll make some blanket status like "I make mistakes, everyone does. F*** you, c*****." but keep insisting she never did anything wrong and the lie is true, no matter how many people prove her to be lying.

I rarely lie unless it involves my family. There are simply too many things that we do not see eye to eye on that I'd rather keep them oblivious to for as long as possible.

I keep a lot of secrets and stuff from my parents and lie to them and stuff, but only about personal things because I'm sure they would disown me. Like... I still haven't come out of the closet for a few years, and they completely don't realize anything. That and the fact that I write short shories/poems/songs. It's just... they'd have a fit about it all, for no good reason, and I'm tired of being yelled at already.
Otherwise, I never lie to anyone. Being honest is my policy :3
I think my friends know more about me than my parents XD

The social contract requires that we be at least half-proficient liars. Our parents tell us from birth not to lie, and then tell us that we're supposed to tell Aunt Gertrude how much we loved the sweater with the duck embroidered on it that we got for Christmas.

Our knee-jerk reaction in many situations is to lie, regardless of our upbringing.

Everyone lies or has lied in the past.
Whether it's to keep themselves from being embarrassed, to please someone, or to make themselves look good, people lie.
Honestly, I've found myself being more honest with others, resulting in my confidence to go up, but at the same time I realize that there's a fine line between being honest and just plain blunt. But it's hard not to be blunt without sugar coating the truth.
Nowadays people take everything so personally. So sometimes telling a white lie just helps people get off your back like you said with your mother... idk. Freaking life.

The one person I thought was honest recently told me she's not and in a really bad way. Needless to say, I don't trust most of what anyone says. Everyone lies but to different extents.

I've told my fair share of lies. My lies, however, are usually the kind told by keeping silent...not refuting things, or not talking about things when I know mentioning it would get me in trouble.

I hide boyfriends and love interests like the plague from my family. They're...scary. My dad interrogates them and freaks out on the boys I bring home, and the first thing my mother does is try to convince the people I'm dating that they need to have children with me and give her grandchildren...so I keep silent, and "lie" that they don't exist.

On the other hand, my best friend is the liar of liars. I have called her a pathological liar for many years because of all the stupid shit she lies about.

She lies to make people like her more, and there isn't A FREAKING THING that she hasn't lied about.

One that sticks out in my head is that she's 19 and doesn't have her license, so every now and then I ask her if she's gotten off her ass and taken the test yet. She always comes up with some excuse for not having it, but the last time I asked she said "I took the test but failed because of the parallel parking test." Now. You're asking yourself: "why would you know this is a lie?"

Well, I asked her where she'd taken it because Colorado doesn't do parallel parking tests and she's been out of state a lot recently. She told me she'd taken it where I'd taken it. Obviously. Something is wrong here. That, and she looked at anything but me when she said this.

She lies all the time like this. About everything. To impress people. It drives me absolutelly insane.