Comments on: Stretching It

By: ittybittybitchy

ittybittybitchy — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:20:46 +0000

But what if the mother story had actually been true? When you bring a third (and somewhat innocent) person into the lies, sometimes you have to give them the benefit of doubt to some extent. If she had jumped on her right away calling her a liar and her mother had ACTUALLY been sick with cancer it would’ve been real bad. What I would’ve done was to make sure her mother was sick and then confront her. You just never REALLY know.

By: Sika

Sika — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:23:51 +0000

I agree with Lisa. Why would you even believe that her Mother was diagnosed with cancer? And if you had her Mother’s number, you should have called and confirmed right away before you let it stress you out.

By: wendy

wendy — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:18:42 +0000

Wow, I thought I might be the only person who knew someone like this, but apparently not. My pathological liar roommate told me she had a twin sister whom her father killed via a drunken car crash. Yeah, not so true. No sister. That was only the first in a long series of lies.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:38:55 +0000

i must be a heartless bitch, because if my compulsive-liar room-mates’s mother supposedly fell into a coma, I don’t think I’d be at all stressed.`

Didn’t you already know she was a liar before the dying-mother story?

By: 321stars

321stars — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:28:11 +0000

It really irks me when people say “I’m a/an {insert major} so trust me/I know this”. No! I’ll trust you when you have that degree and don’t try and convince me just by the fact that you are working on a degree!

I guess its just a pet peeve of mine, but I really can’t stand it.

And I have to agree with Garter. It really sounds like you are making it about you when in fact this girl (as you supposedly know since you are a *gasp* psychology major) has a mental illness/disorder. So unless she is lying to you out of malice, she most likely just has a compulsive/pathological lying problem.

I also think it is very odd. And I also would have gone completely bonkers living with someone like that but I would hope that I would have the clarity to know that it wasn’t all about me.

By: Frau Blucher

Frau Blucher — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:45:01 +0000

well i can see how living with someone who is that disturbed can be a nightmare…even if it’s not about you personally.

By: GarterSnake

GarterSnake — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:39:18 +0000

OK, I knew someone like this, too, and yes, she was incredibly annoying, but it was also obvious that she was a pathological liar. As you said, you were a psych major and you recognized that she had a personality disorder, so surely you recognized that her lying had nothing to do with you. If she wanted to tell people that her mom ran a chain of shoe stores, that her dad worked for the mob, who cares? I’m sure her lies were irritating, especially when she was using them to manipulate professors, but again, none of this has anything to do with you. That’s why I find it so odd that you believe that her lie about her mom was crafted specifically to harm you. Maybe the “long and convoluted story” you cut short explains this, but nothing in the short version suggests that there was anything malicious behind this girl’s lies.
Believe me, I would have gone nuts if I’d had to live with the mythomaniac I used to know. I feel your pain. You lost me in the last paragraph, though. Unless you discovered that this woman was lying just for fun, I highly doubt that the cancer lie was designed to keep you from graduating. It sounds like it was designed to garner attention for the roommate herself.

By: Frau Blucher

Frau Blucher — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:31:03 +0000

I knew a woman like that too! she would tell these stories and when you pressed her, there was no way to verify the details. For example:

- a college professor who was so in love with her that he went nuts and killed himself
-a crazy party of radical feminists who ate feces
- a riot and stabbing at a party which was crashed by bloods and crips. Her boyfriend was there but I have never seen anything about it since in the news
Everyone in her wacko stories was dead, or disappeared..so you could never find out the truth. WHen pressed she was very vague. She was basically a compulsive liar. God help her kids. Fortunately, she wasn’t my roommate!

By: NoNameForThisComment

NoNameForThisComment — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:19:02 +0000

I know someone exactly like that & for a minute I thought it was the same person. But then I remembered that this girl, as opposed to having abortions, liked to lie about being raped every few months. The latest lie I heard about (right after having blocked her on every social networking site) was that she told her booty-call friend & told him she was pregnant, miscarried, & then cremated the fetus’ ashes & gave them to the poor guy who was dumb enough to believe it.

I give you mad props for being able to live with her. It takes a special kind of person (psychology majors unite!) to handle being around those kinds.