my informal observation that the people who bullshit me tend to be a bit confused even when manipulating me isn’t their immediate goal.
True story. I know a girl that has completely lost the ability to distinguish between her lies and reality. For example, if for some reason she says she doesn’t like an item of food that she is known to like, just to piss off her parents, she will henceforth always act as if she hates it. If you slip it into the food and she aks what’s making the food so delicious, and you tell her what’s in it, she will immediately stop liking it even though she was relishing it a minute ago.
That’s just one of the examples I can summon. She believes in her bullshit very strongly on a conscious level, but subconsciously, what is true remains so, and this leads to some very amusing behavior (amusing because she insists she is fine the way she is and is generally a very obnoxious person).
True story. I know a girl that has completely lost the ability to distinguish between her lies and reality. For example, if for some reason she says she doesn’t like an item of food that she is known to like, just to piss off her parents, she will henceforth always act as if she hates it. If you slip it into the food and she aks what’s making the food so delicious, and you tell her what’s in it, she will immediately stop liking it even though she was relishing it a minute ago.
That’s just one of the examples I can summon. She believes in her bullshit very strongly on a conscious level, but subconsciously, what is true remains so, and this leads to some very amusing behavior (amusing because she insists she is fine the way she is and is generally a very obnoxious person).