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Anyone else dealing with a pathological/compulsive liar?
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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 429168" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="color: darkslateblue">Big hugs~</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: darkslateblue">My difficult child was (is) a liar. I swear it's pathological. Her first lie on record in the schools was in kindergarten. She had a swollen bug bite on her forehead and since she forgot her 'show and tell', the bump became her show and telll. She showed it and told everyone that I had run her over with the car. The school psychologist was sitting in that day, lucky me. She called me immediately. Later in 3rd grade she stole the teacher's bag of calculators. And later that same school year, she stole all the books the kids were reading in class - the whole bag (she stuffed them into her backpack). When we asked her about these things the stories were so elaborate, so detailed, almost would have believed them if they weren't so ridiculous. She was of course punished in some way, I don't recall exactly because there were so many behaviors going on. This was 3-5 years prior to her being diagnosis'd. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: darkslateblue">By the time she was a teen, I would tell her that I thought she was lying - this caused a lot of drama in the house. Then I stopped doing that and simply nodded my head and did a little, "Mmhhmm". Eventually, my firm belief was that difficult child was lying because her lips were moving. I simply didn't believe anything that came out of her mouth. Finally by about 17 she realized that whatever BS story she told me was checked with someone, school, etc., and her lies slowed down a bit but she can still dish out a good long tale once in a great while, though nothing like when she was a kid.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: darkslateblue">I have no advice for you - we worked with three counselors and no one was able to get her to stop the charade. She just sort of grew out of it, for the most part. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 429168, member: 2211"] [COLOR=darkslateblue]Big hugs~[/COLOR] [COLOR=darkslateblue]My difficult child was (is) a liar. I swear it's pathological. Her first lie on record in the schools was in kindergarten. She had a swollen bug bite on her forehead and since she forgot her 'show and tell', the bump became her show and telll. She showed it and told everyone that I had run her over with the car. The school psychologist was sitting in that day, lucky me. She called me immediately. Later in 3rd grade she stole the teacher's bag of calculators. And later that same school year, she stole all the books the kids were reading in class - the whole bag (she stuffed them into her backpack). When we asked her about these things the stories were so elaborate, so detailed, almost would have believed them if they weren't so ridiculous. She was of course punished in some way, I don't recall exactly because there were so many behaviors going on. This was 3-5 years prior to her being diagnosis'd. [/COLOR] [COLOR=darkslateblue]By the time she was a teen, I would tell her that I thought she was lying - this caused a lot of drama in the house. Then I stopped doing that and simply nodded my head and did a little, "Mmhhmm". Eventually, my firm belief was that difficult child was lying because her lips were moving. I simply didn't believe anything that came out of her mouth. Finally by about 17 she realized that whatever BS story she told me was checked with someone, school, etc., and her lies slowed down a bit but she can still dish out a good long tale once in a great while, though nothing like when she was a kid.[/COLOR] [COLOR=darkslateblue]I have no advice for you - we worked with three counselors and no one was able to get her to stop the charade. She just sort of grew out of it, for the most part. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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