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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (8687)	2/27/1998 1:20:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20981

I wouldn't go that far. I do think compulsive liars are different from the rest of us. I've known two. They genuinely don't see anything wrong or unusual in it. Both (though one more than the other) are what I'd call reasonably normal people in other respects. One odd thing: others often seem tacitly to agree to put up with this behavior. One of those to whom I've referred was not really all that plausible much of the time--not, at least, once you'd got to know him fairly well--and yet we, his friends, didn't challenge him, and didn't talk about the problem with each other. (Well, not until there was a big blowup, but that's another story.) To do so would have been create a socially unpleasant situation. Of course, it's been this way for them all their lives, which is no doubt why they continue to lie, and why they don't think it's such a big deal. As a postscript, I'd say also that they had a hard time distinguishing between lies, exaggerations, and convenient evasions. Most of us occasionally exaggerate a story for (usually humorous) effect, but we're willing to admit to it. They begin to believe it...