Everyone ELSE are liars, but WE'RE the suspects???

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YES!! ! I have come to believe this is true... most other people(NTs) are consummate liars and that's why their lives are so much easier. It does greatly anger me because people should be honest with each other. When I try to lie I ALWAYS get caught because it's just not in my DNA to be a liar. It makes it hard to want to even be in this world when the majority of people are so deceptive and manipulative. I guess the only way to deal with it is to not put too mustock into what anyone says and just gauge things for yourself. I find this makes life a little easier but it can still cause you to lament the fact that people in general aren't very decent.

Even infants lie. They know how to manipulate at a very young age. My nephew will start to scream when he would see a toy my son had and my mother would see him with a toy and think he took it from him. So she put him in time out and then my nephew would be looking at him and smiling and laughing. My mom would realize she was tricked. My son doesn't even do this but he has done other manipulation. He will start screaming and crying and then I pick him up and he looks normal again. If it was all genuine, his eyes would be all watery and he still be sniffling. I have seen both so I learned the difference.

It may be that everyone else lies and cheats, but it doesn't help me at least to tell myself that things are other peoples' fault. It doesn't help in the long run to say everythings my own fault, but it does help in the short run so that i can get up and say, ok weeny, you screwed up now its time to fix it.

Because they are also better liars.

There is no penalty for lying, only for lying poorly.

The moral of "The boy who cried wolf" story is: If you're going to lie all the time, don't keep telling the same lie.

The boy in that story is an idiot because he kept telling the exact same lie and expecting people to believe it. He should've thought of some different lies to tell people.

My daughter can't lie, or embelish the truth, at all. If I'm not convinced that she's telling the complete truth, I only need to say, 'Is that true?' and she says, 'No, it didn't really happen'. She doesn't do it very often, because she knows there's no point in trying.

I have a worry about a child in her class, who is a habitual and convincing liar. He has said false things to the teacher about my daughter (and others) doing X or Y and the teacher believed him. He tells fibs about having an older brother and living in a flat, etc. We live very near to him, so my daughter knows a lot of what he says is just not true. A lot of this sounds like he's a Walter Mitty character, but some of his lies have been dangerous and he's also been involved in a very serious incident, so serious that several parents, including myself, have told their children to keep back from him. So, he's definitely one to watch out for. However, until this morning I thought he had a very pronounced stutter. But, my daughter told me she can tell when he's lying. She imitated his stutter and said that he talks like that when he's lying and he did not usually speak like that. This knowledge will be of great benefit, I'm sure. They've jut got some new teachers, so we'll see if they're taken in by him.