I just don't understand how she can say she doesn't lie. There has to be something really wrong with her. Does she genuinely believe it?
I think almost everything has a grain of truth in it, and she thinks all she’s doing is adding the kind of harmless embellishment most people do to make stories more entertaining.
I genuinely think she doesn’t see the difference between Jane saying “a wasp flew in and scared the
tit out of me, it was the size of a bloody rat!” and her embellishments and how they’re actually very different things because nobody thinks Jane actually
tit herself or that the wasp was actually rat sized. The grift obviously also adds another layer to her stories, but something in her general perception just seems very off to me as does the level of defensiveness and digging further holes when she’s called out. ETA: the other example of this I couldn’t remember was when she got
crappy about the car she’d been dropped off in, that it was navy (I think?) actually, whoever had said it was lying - when the point of the post had been that it was an expensive car.
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I worked with someone with a similar perception on a lower scale and it was exhausting because they’d say one thing and claim they’d meant another and go on and on defending themselves, but we once did something to cover up a birthday surprise for a colleague and they were livid that we’d all “lied”and that was ok when they’d been called out for a lie that had actual consequences a few days earlier. It really didn’t seem to be some sort of concerted thing or even rules for thee and me, just an inability to see any nuance at all. That’s what Jack reminds me of.