Attention-Seeking Friends' Made-up Stories Destroyed by Reality
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Sadly, I was "that kid" in middle school. I only had a few close friends and largely felt "invisible" so I tried to make myself more interesting by making up cool people I'd met on the internet, stealing art (despite actually having decent natural aptitude), claiming to speak languages and to have traveled places...
Looking back, it just makes me sad. I stunted myself, lied to the only people who would put up with me, eventually dissociated and spent many years not even really knowing who I am. I was always a blank template, ready to absorb and reflect whatever would make me more interesting to people--things like music tastes, vocabulary, favourite shows etc; stuff that's so superficial and stupid to lie about to begin with. It's taken years of continual introspection to pick the truths from fabrications and come to appreciate myself as one of 7.5 billion people.
Don't lie. Don't try to be someone you aren't. You will only exhaust yourself in trying to maintain so many false narratives, and will only disappoint and alienate those who love you when they learn that you aren't really who they thought. Be true to yourself and to others. The right people will enter your life when you are true. Life will be less exhausting.
It's truly freeing.
Plot twist: you were actually a pretty normal kid, and you just made up this whole backstory for attention!
Nah but in all seriousness, good on you for self-reflecting. That can be really hard for some people.
Girl at school came in one day saying she'd met Kurt Cobain the night before. Didn't get a signed photo but 'he was lovely'. This was in 2004.
So she met his ghost 10 yrs after hid death?lol
I was in fourth grade and lied about knowing Zac Efron to get friends 🤣
LMFAO
@@yougotgamesonyourphone6947 did it work?
A girl in high school we were friends with had blood splatter/spray over her bedroom wall. Asked her what was going on and she told us her mother's boyfriend had been abusive. She even cried about this and was self harming. I took this very seriously and called child line, who contacted the police for a welfare check. I did this anonymously because I was worried about her. Next week in school she goes on an angry tangent about kicking the crap out of whoever called the police. I got annoyed saying 'so you think you can kick the crap out of me?'. She back peddled and admitted she lied. The blood was from a nose bleed and she liked seeing how far she could spray the blood.
After that I could never trust a single thing she said it was the final and sickest lie. She had too many problems and no matter how many times I tried to help/support her it always came out she was talking crap.
That’s terrible!
Ok that’s just cruel.
The story about the kid who said he was in the marines, and how half the government wanted to protect him, and other half wanted him dead, would make a pretty good movie/netflix show plot
Hubby and I actually storyboarded that into a game plot.
There was a short period of time when I told people I could read auras. I don't recall anyone calling my bullshit, instead, they all wanted "readings". It was 7th grade.
I mean... Auras are real.... It's not something you "read" though
@@Stopfollowingmeplz8 ha ha. Pseudo science
At least that’s not hurting anyone though. I mean, unless you told someone something really screwed up about their “aura”.
@@TheNormExperience
Nah, I just stroked their ego, told them what they wanted to hear. It was too easy. I can see how scam artists can easily get into it.
I once had a friend who claimed that she only had to hear a song once and could have it memorized, well at the time we all listened to the same music (middle school) and we would think of songs they we thought she didn’t know and would be amazed when she knew every lyric after only listening to it once. And then something clicked in my head, I was raised by my grandparents so I was inherently an old rocker, so I played Hay Jude by the beetles and she was just at a loss for words and tried to claim that it was because the words were melded together and it made it hard to understand them... yeah uh huh
I’m not completely innocent myself tho, I was that kid who claimed she couldn’t feel anything in her right hand... yeah one smack of a hammer by a friend who called me on my bullshit, made me cut that shit out immediately
The hammer story though. 😭 I’m sorry!
For a short time, around 7th grade, I claimed that I could read auras. I think it's really odd that NO ONE called my bullshit, everyone just wanted "readings"!
What an odd lie. Lol I can't feel my right hand. Why did we all lie about dumb stuff as a kid? I lied about having a bf in another school. You wouldn't know him. He loves me, tho.
Natasha T. Haha idk why we did stupid stuff like that, but thinking back will help us with our own young when the time comes
😂😂😂 chile kids lie....thats how we all learn that lies are bad 😭😭 not a hammer tho
There was this one kid ―let's call her Jamie― who lied about the stupidest things, often things that could be believable, but we proved cap within seconds. Not many of those really stand out in my memory, but there were some other, bigger, and much stupider ones, eg:
•Jamie supposedly had headphones that could play any song ever, even when unplugged
•She knew every song ever written
•Her parents just randomly gave her between $100 & $1000 each week (my friends & I were in Year 4, Jamie was a Year 3, so that was... certainly something)
•She was an extra in some of the Harry Potter films (films that, if she had've been in any, she couldn't have been older than 3yo, and what 3yo female extras did they need in the later films?)
Jamie could come up with fast excuses, but couldn't deliver them well (I'm guessing she practised all the "big" lies she told), so it was more infuriating than anything when she started these conversations unprompted, and then was the person to turn it into an argument. Her defences on the first 2 were as follows:
•Us: Oh, cool! Can we try those headphones? -Jamie: NO! My parents said no one else can put them on, because of ear germs.
•Us: So you even know [I think it was] Life in The Fast Lane? -Jamie: I think so; could you sing a bit? -Us: [Deliberately not picking the chorus] ♪She said, 'Call the doctor, I think I'm gonna crash!' The doctor says he's coming, but you need to pay him cash♪ Do you know the rest? -Jamie: Oh yeah! Of course I know that song, but I only know that part, the chorus, not the actual verses [As aforementioned, we did not choose the chorus.]
We felt uncomfortable questioning if she was actually adopted, or if was just another attention-seeking lie, so we asked the teacher instead. Teach confirmed it, but queried why we were asking.
One brave friend said, "Well, she tells a LOT of other lies," and Teach just let out a long, "Oooh... Right then."
Sorry for the long comment, I just never really liked this person, and needed to make sure some randoms from the other side of the world didn't either..! Yeesh, I sound like a sociopath.
Actually, you don't. These people are just starved for any kind of attention, probably because she doesn't get enough (or any) from her parents, so has built this fantasy world for themselves. It is rather sad, but this kind of person needs psychological help, and is toxic to anyone who isn't well versed in psychology.
My brother, my ex best friend, and an aunt of mine are ALL like this. I have nothing to do with any of them and my life has never been happier. I can't fucking stand liars and fake people.
the first one...were wireless headphones not invented back then or did she receive AirPods from a time traveller
She sounds exhausting to be around!
I knew someone from college who was an only child born in 1971. He claimed:
1. He saw combat in Vietnam.
2. Had a brother who was killed in action.
A guy from work claimed he grows weed indoors. He didn't realize that I do too. Without telling him what I do, I asked him what kind of growing he does. Photo VS auto, soil VS coco or some other hydro medium, LED VS HPS / CMH lights, LST VS topping, scrog net VS no scrog, pre-harvest flush VS no flush, etc. He had no idea what I was talking about. Liar.
I grow weed sometimes too & I have no idea what you're talking about. I just grow it from seeds starting off in seed raising mix and transplant them into big tubs in the back garden, filled with potting mix & some slow release fertiliser granules.
@@mannydavis7708 good point. I should clarify. We were specifically talking about indoor. Outdoors you don't have to know that stuff. Indoors you have to know all of that stuff.
I'll edit, thanks.
@@elsquibbs I assumed that was the case. I live in a country somewhat known for it's "bush weed" with very mild winters, only an occasional frost with sun filled summers and occasional rain. Great growing conditions for a lot of things.
Its normally only children that do stuff like this.
I used to grow weed indoors in the 90s and don't really know what you're talking about, I just put the seeds in pots and bought some grow lamps.
Once a kid at my school said that he was representing our school in the South African soccer championship (we lived in Australia). He also said that he dove in at one end of the 50 meter swimming pool and swam under water without breathing the 50 meters to the other side.
Is an Olympic size swimming pool that big? If so, my best friend can do that. Well, she could when she was a teenager, we're 50, so I'm not sure about now. It took over a minute for her to do it, but she could fucking do it!
When I was 11 I told people Eminem was my uncle because I had just moved to the town and wanted friends.
Well did you get friends because of it? Did they believe you? When did you tell the truth?
@@0glassrose0 no i never had any friends because I went to very small schools that had Christian country children as the population. I was a city girl with a bunch of siblings and just her mom. Dad was never in the picture. My hair was always different colors and I only wore black. I didn't help matters by telling that lie. I was friends with the teachers, was beat on by the children my age. So no, the truth never made it to anybody because I stopped talking at school
Once this kid in my class I was kinda friends with would always tell crazy stories example: getting stuck in an elevator shaft and just crazy stuff like that. Once he was telling a story, like he always did. So, I was like “your lying that’s not true” he paused, looked at me and said “yeah, your right” and he stopped telling those after that.
I think he was tryna see how long he could continue before someone stopped him
Yeh, probs
One of my friends tried telling my whole friend group that she was Wolfychu
So basically reddit?
What did her voice sound like
@@vixy2321 she was very loud
lmao, should've asked, "where's jordan sweeto?
Lol
>there was a real pikachu in his tree
>he's in the Hells Angels
>he has a secret base in Antarctica
>he's inheriting his grandfather's amazing gun collection
>his aunt is a real witch
Are you sure he’s not just schizophrenic?
he's just high
Witch could be true though
He thinks this because she has one patch of white hair on her head, and apparently it's "the mark of the witch"
My mom says its because the aunt had a cut on her head and the mother used peroxide on it, and her hair now grows white in that spot.
@@cdm94 The witch one MIGHT be true, as witches are real. And peroxide wouldn't cause hair to grow IN white, it only bleaches existing hair upon LONG exposure. It sounds like your Mom doesn't know why either, lol.
There was a girl in my class who constantly invented new boyfriends. Her boyfriends were always super rich. She claimed that one gave her a horse as a present and another a yacht. They all lived far away. Once she told us that her boyfriend landed on the roof of her house with his helicopter. The roof wasn’t flat. She often said we'd meet her boyfriend soon. But then she broke up with him every time just before the meeting.
There's a friend I have who, if you let her talk long enough, always has her tales go from "Well that's believable" to "Hmm..that seems suspect" to "Okay now wait that's clearly bullshit". She seems to thrive on attention. What makes this all the more sad is we're in our 30's. For example, she's said that her aunt owns a wolf farm in Florida that she'll inherit, or that her uncle is the accountant to the royal family (we live in the US). What's frustrating is nobody ever straight up says "Bro that's bullshit" because she'll make *you* look like the asshole for daring to question her.
She can't seem to let others have the spotlight for even a second. Two times of note were when, after I pulled myself from a 1.02 GPA at community college to a 3.96 with a degree in finance, I was very excited upon graduation. She proceeded to talk the entire party about her 'two bachelors in computer science and psychology'. Sweetie, no, you don't have those or you wouldn't be living in the attic of your dead baby daddy working overnight at a microchip plant. Or when I received the highest award for public speaking (Distinguished Toastmaster), she suddenly had two of them (possible, but she had no proof and how DARE you suggest she's lying).
Like bruh, we'll like you for you I promise. Your aunt doesn't own a wolf farm. Your uncle isn't a royal family accountant, you don't have even one bachelors let alone two, and you have no awards for public speaking. You are a lower class girl who has a child whose father died and I care about you, that can be enough I promise. People like that can be very taxing to try and be friends with.
Had this friend in sixth grade that loved to make up stories. I remember:
1) He knew how to unlock Mew in Smash Bros.
2) His dad worked for Capcom.
3) His dad was the one who named Guile
4) That his dad was working on (the then unreleased) Marvel vs Capcom 2 and he got to play it. They removed Mega Man but added Carnage.
5) That he had Pokemon Stadium for the Playstation. You could use Pikablu and Missingno.
I didn't realize this was so common. I fudged a little in school, but I never tell tales now. Some people really take it to new heights, wow!
Kid once said that he invented origami.
Lol
Should have said "wow, you look great for your age!"
I once chatted with someone on a fanfiction site. At first, everything was normal. But then it turned out he had bipolar disorder. Then some evil organization was after him and he had to run away. Then he would come back and then he would be in a coma in the hospital. I believed the thing about the bipolar disorder, but only pretended to believe the rest. At one point, he had told so many stories that I got fed up and stopped playing along and began questioning him. Then his "grandma" logged into his profile to explain that he was in the hospital again. When I didn't buy that story either, he involved another user of the same site whom I had been chatting with for a while. We stopped chatting shortly after. I sometimes wonder what reallly went on back then.
One of my teammates was talking through all the tricks he had on skies, which included every backflip that’s ever done. I sat there pretending to be fascinated, but knowing my brother was a competitive skier who had only a couple of those, and had worked hard all summer to get them.
This was one of maybe 30 lies that was told, and for some reason it sticks out to me in my mind. Maybe because I know skiing too well.
Remember that the people who do this kind of stuff are hurt, damaged, and sad people. Never lose compassion for others.
Bruh I used to be the person who’d tell stories for attention and it kills me inside everytime I think about it. This is the only thing I’ve ever seen that makes me feel a little better about it. Thank you, it’s been torturing me for years haha
I agree thoroughly. There are definitely exceptions. Lying about r*pe, assault, abuse or anything of the sort is intolerable. Kindness should always be the method when approaching. You’re very sweet cabbageboy
@@T-Rex. Honestly, I think just about everyone has done it to some degree at some point in their lives. Have compassion for yourself, as well as others. I'm really proud of you for growing out of it and learning why it isn't good, many never do.
@@kierstenmayer7636 Thank you, Kiersten, this comment makes a great point. I think it is important that we never forget the difference between enabling someone's intolerable actions and having compassion for them.
@Nature and Physics Compassion isn't tolerance or even forgiveness. That is cruel, and I hope that you find peace, because no one deserves that.
I literally refuse to put up with coworkers that are pathological liars. All my other coworkers are too polite to say anything but I immediately say thats a lie and move past the person. Once the liar realizes you're not going to entertain their bull crap they quit talking to you and its lovely.
I have two from a girl I thought was going to be my BFF. Once back in middle school we were talking about how sex was bad and then she told me that she wasn't a virgin and had sex in the 1st grade. I backed away from her and asked how could she? I didn't want to be her friend after "knowing" that and she said that she wanted to know if it felt good. When I told her that we couldn't be friends anymore she then said that she was lying the whole time and that she made it up. Why the hell would you need to pull a story like that out of your @ss for?? Now that I'm older I know for a FACT that it was BS because how the hell was a child gonna get away with having sex??
There was also another set of stories where she had a boyfriend who she would free run with in our town, there was even a particular instance where they kissed just as they flipped off of a building. She ended up breaking up with the guy because she saw a text message to him from another girl he was seeing behind her back. She dumped him on the spot and told the other free runners about it. Like it was all some kind of corny teen lifetime movie...
She’s lucky she didn’t get her parents investigated for potentially doing something because I’ve heard about investigations being launched as a result of children talking about sex acts (whether true or false). Her parents could have been vilified for something that didn’t happen (even when it was established it didn’t happen) because that girl thought it would be cool to lie about something like that.
In 7th grade I knew (and still know) two boys with the same name. Both of their fathers worked in construction, both of their mothers were teachers, and supposedly both of their parents were divorced.
This became very confusing, as the one boy would show pictures of his not split up family, and then talk about his step-mother, and then talk about his real mother, and sometimes switched between who was the one from the picture, but i just chalked it up to my bad memory. Once on a feild trip, the woman who he had told me was his stepmother started talking about how she looked so much like him. And then later on he switched it again so that she was his biological mom. My dumbass still believed him because I didnt really have a reason not to, I just figured that I was confused since none of my friends had divorced parents before this point. Then, at a parent information night for the school year, this boy showed up with his supposedly divorced parents who sat together and were touching shoulders and very happy and comfortabe, etc. And then at the end of the night while my parents were talking to them they made a joke about having another kid together!! My parents and myself must have looked at them cross-eyed. It was so weird!!!
And then about 2 years later, on an overnight school trip, a friends mom was staying in the same room as the mom/stepmom lady, and mentioned the confusion.
Apparently, this kid MADE UP a whole divorce for attention, and so that he could relate more to the other boy with his same name.
He does other weird sociopathic things like that now, and has really shown his true, shitty colors in recent years.
I just clicked on this to see if any of my elementary school lies made this video
Whew bullet dodged
I was a 3rd degree black belt at age 12, had a butler and lived in several mansions
I call b.s.
HP Lovecraft well that’s the point
Kid once said he was an extra in a movie. He didn't know what the movie was called. He said he was in the background of a scene with two people talking. the most non-descriptive scene ever.
kid you literally posted two stories you’re the liar lmao
@@zesovietonion4783 What do you mean. These were two different people who went to my school and when I remembered this story didn't want to make the comment longer so I made a new comment. And how does posting a different story in a different comment make me a liar.
@@jaxlegoproductions4147 someone is always going to doubt you no matter how normal your story may be. Its best to ignore people like that.
@@zesovietonion4783 Are you working with SAGE? 🤔
I'm going to be honest, I did this when I was younger
I was at McDonald's and these two guys were flirting with this cute chick . The wingman was telling her about how his friend is an amazing computer hacker and she was into it until he brought up how he once accidentally hacked into the military servers and took control of a bunch of unmanned drones, when he realized what he did he reset everything. After to avoid being caught by the FBI he hacked their servers and erased all information they had on him,the poor girl she was into him until that last bit and just kinda looked around we made eye contact and just exchanged a "wtf is he saying" look she excused herself to the bathroom but walked out instead.
One of my friends at the time said they had gotten into a car crash and flew through the windshield. At that point I started to distance myself from a full fledged liar 😂😂
I have a friend that mentions, all the time, how she hates to lie and brings up other people's lies so she can judge them for it. The problem is that she's definitely a liar. She's constantly contradicting herself and when I ask questions to try to clarify, she always makes it much worse by trying to fix her lie. I don't even think she notices how often she tells me one thing and then something completely different, without even realizing it. Also, she's terrible at being a friend. Surprise, surprise.
Then she's not a friend, just someone you know.
I once told my older brother about how someone I knew said one thing and then later said something different, and he passed on some wisdom he'd heard somewhere: "If you tell the truth, then you don't have to worry about remembering what lie you told."
@@karaoconnoraliasraidra
Exactly! I learned this at a very young age. When I was little, I noticed how hard it was to lie because you had to keep up with your own lies! And that was just too hard. Besides, it felt REAL BAD. _That_ was the worst part of all, for me.
I'm not good at lying and I absolutely hate the guilt! So, I just don't do it. And wow, it's so much easier! Oh my gawd, NOT lying is SO much easier because I NEVER have to worry about keeping up with the lie. Zero effort and zero guilt. SO much easier than lying!
@Jayna Richelle
I've talked to her until I was blue in the face. She doesn't listen. She's on her own path.
Don't worry, we aren't friends, anymore. I finally gave up on her.
@Jayna Richelle
Also, isn't this what TH-cam is for?
Judge much?
The majority of Reddit stories on askreddit are made up. Heh.
No shit, Sherlock
Huh.
the irony
Heh. Heh. Heh. Heh. Heh.
Wait really? How could I have known? Next you'll tell me that TH-cam is a website
My younger sister’s best friend in elementary school told everyone her family were killed by bears and that’s why she lives with her grandparents. Her story was ridiculously detailed and no one had any reason not to believe this kid. Yeah her parents were fine. Just divorced and her mom turned out was some crazy bitch.
Wish I could say the kid grew up well, but my mother and her mom had a HUGE falling out when my sister was in high school so idk where this kid is well.
My friend told me they own a dragon 😑
Vixen/Vixy The Fox *_they do?! Can I see it?! PLEASE?!_*
If it’s a bearded dragon, then they’re technically not lying lol
But I actually DO own a dragon, and I can honestly genuinely tell people that.
Komodo dragons exist too he's not a liar just a smartass
I used to tell jokes in a way that people thought they were actual things that happened to family members until I got to the punch line. I was always careful to make sure they were believable and would acknowledge that it was indeed a joke after the punch line was delivered. One evening, I was telling a story to a girl my friend was dating and he called me out half way through. A few months later, I was telling some other friends a different joke in the same style and she was there and told me she didn't belive me in front of the other friends.
God that one about the Himalayas and Andes! My God! That idiot doesn't know his Geography! The Himalayas are in Asia and the Andes are in South America! I know everyone should know this, Good God, my annoyance at the guy skyrocketed with just that statement!
In my year 6 class there was one kid who was constantly seeking for attention. She said stuff like she was being abused and she has depression. I knew this was a lie but just to be safe I offered to tell somebody who could help her and then she refused saying her parents were less abusive than before. but when she said she had magical powers and can see ghosts that's when I called out on her lies and told her that faking depression is something you really shouldn't do and she flipped out on me threatening to send her ghosts to haunt me 😑
grandma approved
Good
Hi grandma
Why are you always top comment?!?
Keep it up 👍
Thanks Grandma
Like I said previously I would like to know shen grandma disapproves yknow what?
Day 1 of asking when grandma disapproves
In 4th grade, Candace told me she went to the club with adults and danced with men. I was sooooo jealous. She seemed so cool. Now that I'm 30 and randomly remembered that story, I know i was an idiot in 4th grade.
The thumbnail is creepy...can you imagine if it was two grown men posing with an underage girl? It’s creepy both ways, dude.
Telling on myself:
In second grade I told everyone I saw a deer asleep in my yard, but no one gave a shit cause we were a small rural town, deer were everywhere. So to spice it up i said i snuck up on snoozing Bambi and climbed on its back and not only did it not care but in fact it let me ride it around my yard....i was dumb and liked attention. I am now dumb and hate attention so I don't makeup bad lies anymore lol
A lot of these attention seekers actually have a high functioning mental disorder called histrionic personality disorder. My sons teacher has this disorder. I knew her from a long time ago and looked up her weird behavior. So far no crap has went down. First time it does though I’ll take her to the side and tell her.
I have a coworker who works at the returns desk. He makes ridiculous claims and stories. My favorites include: 1) he was a nasa engineer. 2) he worked at Google and had an entire wing under his management. It was so high security that they needed key cards and fingerprint scanners. 3) he speaks eight languages. It’s always a trip when I get my returns at the front and hear him telling people about how he used to have ‘x’ job or that he has met ‘x’ person like dude, you work at a customer service desk. Like dude, if you’ve had such high paying jobs why are you there?
Lies one of my friends has told me that I can recall right off the top of my head rn.
>>That their dog got hit by a car and died. (I later saw the same dog a couple weeks later.)
>>That one of their teachers was disrespecting a student’s pronouns.
>>That they drew a drawing, which was actually a trace of one of my own goddamn drawings.
A friend of mine was once dating a guy that claimed the Blackhawk Down movie was based on him, specifically. She actually believed it!
I don't know why, but my favorite one here is the one about the 14 year old self-proclaimed "marine" and his ridiculous story about the government
My brother was friends with these twins who were born 3 minutes apart. They claimed one of them was born in India and one in Ireland.
😂😂
Some of the stories Sunfire tells about me.
1: I run into burning buildings to save people. The truth? I run my stretcher part way toward burning buildings to collect the victim and start administering first aid.
2: I perform major surgery on the side of the road. The truth? I performed an emergency tracheotomy on a choking child at a mall. Sunfire witnessed this one. It is classified as surgery, but this kid was dying in front of me, and I was going to do everything I could to save the kid.
3: I dive into freezing rivers to save people. The truth? I fell in, not dived in.
4: I swim in shark infested water to save people, and apparently I once fought off a shark. The truth? I got a call for a victim of drowning at the beach. All I did was collect the victim after they had been revived by the lifeguards. I don’t know where the I fought off a shark came from.
My partner is banned from babysitting Sunfire.
I love you!! Thanks! Queen Sunstar is my username. I am a paramedic. Sunfire is my daughter’s username.
I have a street in my town named after my family because we used to own a farm there 100 years ago. A girl with the last name Hood told me her father is the owner of the Hood milk company 😆
We have an associate where I work who has lied multiple times for years about being pregnant. This “pregnancy” she went the whole nine yards, bought fake ultrasound pictures, someone threw a baby shower (and now wants everything back), got maternity leave, everything! I hope the company goes after her for fraud!
"My friend in high school tried to tell us that a lady from the old people's home next door had climbed over her fence and died in her lawn." Someone pulled a similar stunt with me and at least one other person on a website I frequent. I had already discovered this person was insensitive and a liar, so I had decided that if he or she contacted me again, I would ignore them. They went to my friend's talk page and claimed they had been out shopping and watched a girl fall to her potential death (without providing any information to support their claims, such as a location or a link to a news article). When my friend didn't respond, they went to my talk page and told the same story. I forget if they then tried it with a third person on the site or just gave up, but they stopped leaving me messages. Edit- I checked the site and I was actually the third person they told the story. They were just going from person to person hoping someone would believe their story and give them attention.
I'd met this grown woman in 2018 & was entertained by many stories of her life. She said the song SHE TALKS TO ANGELS was inspired by 1 of the band members she met on a greyhound bus. When I asked how he was on the bus she said, He told her his band had left without him. She also claims she wrote the song WE HAD IT ALL & sent to Dolly Parton . Ending up being ripped off . But I think the 1 person that took the ribbon was a guy that was crushing on my daughter & told her he was on the road with Lyn/Skn ....& Wrote their music! (He was born in 1984) At time he was trying to impress my teenage daughter he had also told her he had been in Central Prison & trained a cockroach to carry a joint tied on its back to other cells. Clearly age wasn't old enough for C.P.
I've had like 3 friends who are like this. It's super weird and you never wanna call them out on it because there's probably something else going on, especially when they make things up about family.
One of my classmate throughout law school made up stories about how his mother was a princess for a country that didn't even exist after I looked it up. He made stories about being loyalty and one day randomly started wearing gloves to tell he was officially a prince now and crowned. Princess can't touch anything with bare hands etc 😂😂
When I was 8 I told everyone that I had raced Usain bolt and beat him. The worst part is I convinced myself that it actually happened
A friend tried to convince me he could walk 5km (3.11 miles) in 5 min and was suprised i didn't belive him...
this kid told me that him, his dad and sister each had a pool in their rooms, that he had an indoor theater, and that he had a cheetah and some other animal.
Few of my friends prolly thinks I’m crazy bc my uncle’s buddy apparently worked on cod mobile and had pictures to prove it lol. Another one I used to tell was that my great uncle was most likely joker from full metal jacket. He served with the guy who wrote the book which the movie was based on and their stories match up. It is confirmed that he was shot by that Vietnam sniper according to my mom at least lol.
Had a "friend" say that her grandpa touched her. She told me super late into our friendship (about 12ish years) but some of our other friends knew. When I asked them about it they told me she would mention it if she was arguing with them and needed a way out because she wasn't winning. Yeah, needless to say we are no longer friends.
Someone I went to school with tried to tell us she was adopted bc another girl she hung out with was actually adopted. She was very adamant that she was adopted and that her mom was actually her aunt. Here’s the problem, our school is tiny, so you know almost everything about everyone, and two, we had all met her mom multiple times and called her mom and three, we all knew she was dramatic and a pathological liar
Once had a friend who tried selling the story that she was some werewolf or vampire or whatever, for months, in our very early teens. Sure enough when twilight was big. This girl was known for telling some real whoppers.
Another one was something about them ending up on the jumbo screen over a thrown hot dog at some baseball game. Can't even recall all the details there.
She was a couple years older than me, so shes recently married with a kid now. Hope she's outta tat mindset by now.
When I was 8 or 9, and in soccer, one of the kids on my team claimed that several months before the season he went skydiving, had his parachute break, and landed groin first on a pole. He then claimed that it didn't injure him, he just wasn't allowed to pee for a month, and that when he finally could pee he peed so hard he broke a toilet and the people who owned the toilet gave him $1000 because they wanted to replace the toilet anyway.
I had a friend when I had just come to a new school. He told all sorts of crazy stories. One of these was that he once fell into a cage at the zoo of a prehistoric Saber tooth Tiger which didn't attack him and in fact sat by and played with him like a cat would cuz he read his prayers. Even though we were in a religious school and myself and my friends were arguably more religious than him we didn't buy his BS for a minute. We called him out on it but he simply dodged any questions or promised to show us proof someday. We stayed friends for a while but he stole money from us and left the school soon after. He had other crazy stories but none as bold and outlandish as this one.
I've had toxic people at my high school like that, but they only do that shit to me anytime I try to have a decent convo with them.
They always want to twist things around just to 1-UP me. For example? Telling them I just started martial arts and they immediately say they already have "black belts in judo".
Telling them the vending machine dropped me two snacks instead of one due to a glitch and they'll tell me the machine dropped "four at once", which is bullshit.
That's why I ended all contact from them to this day.
When I was really young, early elementary age, I was watching an after school special true story movie about a girl, around my age at the time, who was killed by a hit and run while walking down the street with her friend; I think the driver was drunk, too. My mom commented about how much the actress playing the little girl looked nearly exactly like me. Guess who became the actress who played that little girl? Yep, it was me. I told all my friends about it, etc., and we were all so young and I really did look like her. I have no idea if I was believed or not because we moved around so much when I was young, so I don't even remember my classmates' names.
One of my high school friends told me she found my wallet while walking to my house from hers. All the money was missing
I didn’t even know my wallet was missing
This reminds me the time some kid at middle school used to say bunch of crazy stuff like he once went to a construction with his uncle and blew up a building and other time was his cousin who worked at game stop got him a Xbox one and during the time the Xbox one wasn't even out yet
one girl i knew tried to tell us that when she was 3 she got stung by a baby box jelly fish while on the california coast. any other one she told was that she had a twin and she was killed in a car crash when she was little, but her parents didnt tell her she was dead until she was 10. after those 2 i didnt trust a word she said
I had a friend who once told us he had been stabbed in the stomach and almost died but the doctors did such a good job fixing him up that there was no scar
My blonde friend said that when she went to get her hair dyed, the hairdresser insisted she keep it her natural colour because it was 'so unique' and had 'every colour' in it. She went as far as to say that when the colour samples were placed against her hair they blended in perfectly. Even black. On ash blonde hair. I'm still bewildered
I had a friend in middle school who claimed she was training to be a Navy SEAL. She told me she would run 5 miles every morning with her German Shepard. We were in middle school.
7:47 - "he was Hilter's great grandson" - weird flex, but ok...
One of my teachers when I was 12-15 always told BS stories about how awesome he was, instead of teaching, in class. By the time we were 14 we knew he was full of shit but since it beat having actual class we indulged him. His favorite type stories was how he fought off one or sometimes multiple attackers in the street with his awesome judo skills (he was an actual judo instructor). This was in a small town in Sweden, so no, there was no way he was constantly being attacked by thugs at random out of the blue. Anyway, he was full of stories about how he was the strongest and smartest person in the room.
Well, if he was a full adult, he might have, possibly, been the strongest one in the room, considering the rest were only young teenagers, but I seriously doubt he was the smartest.
I also had a teacher one school year that talked a good game about his "exploits" (nothing too extravagant, though, or actually far-fetched) and each time he'd go off on one of his tangents, everyone in the class had the same look on their faces, "Who really gives a flying f**k". He only lasted one school year because he had a lot of things about him that the school board didn't like (abusing Latino students, mostly. He was very racist, having come from Texas)
I like creating stories that are pretty believable and congratulate those who can call me out.
This is one of them.
One of our classmate said that his father earns about 1.6 million per day.
Guess what he was bullied on this statement and had to leave the school.
He was a complete weirdo and had already given many these type of illogical statements during serious talks.
One of my friends said her parents went on honeymoon at everest, and they hiked all the way to the top.
They 100% did not
I once had a friend that constantly posted on her Facebook that she was engaged but she was always changing who she was engaged to.
mewthree is **chefs kiss** perfect
I had a friend who thought it would be ‘FUNNY’ to try to prove that I was lying about having to have my chin glued shut and the fact that I broke a kids leg. I showed the scar and my mom confirmed that I broke a kids leg because they tried to shoot my little brother. (He was 3 at the time) this was 7th grade :)
A former friend was like this. Two stories come to mind -
1-Told us a funny story about his aunt running into eddie Murphy and arsenio hall in an elevator. Didn't buy it and wouldn't you know, I read the exact same story in reader's digest not long after...and no, it definitely wasn't his aunt in the story..
2-He had this bookie named "Bernie". One day he had to see him. His friend offered to tag along, but was told to wait in the car while he met with him.....around the corner and out of sight. We figured he just walked around the block a few times and came back when he was done... LMAO!
I told a fake story once. I was in my late teens and lived a pretty boring life, so why not make it interesting? immediately after that i thought: "well that was pointless. The conversation wasnt even good and now i always have to remember this story and who i told it to, so i dont screw this up." Lesson learned quickly.
On the other hand, a friend once told me about her friend, who always happends to end up in weird situations. Then she proceeded to tell me a few. After i "gave away" the end to one of the stories, she got very confused. Turns out her friend has been telling her urban legends and pretended they all happend to her. She never mentioned that friend again, but i saw the betrail in her eyes...
Junior year she suddenly switched races. She was no longer white, she was now mexican/latina/Hispanic. She constantly changed what she was but it was always one of those three, and constantly trashed talked white people and got mad if anyone confused her for white even though she is white. I am half mexican half Honduran and it pissed me off so much that she was using my race to get attention that I just stopped being her friend
I'm in a girl school. Imagine the drama.
1) They think they can commit murder but they can't handle animated gore that I showed them.
2) one friend said they did 'it' but it's obvious 'it' wasn't done, the entire friend group knew she was lying
they genuinely make fun of serious issues. So imagine how badly they were exposed when I called them out on reality about the lies they told
Unfortunately I was that one kid, in 3rd grade I told everyone I got hunted down by a cougar. I told everyone that I encountered a magical pink tiger, and most of all I told people my mother was either a queen or a fairy, I die inside every day replaying these in my head.😭☠️
"My uncle is the CEO of karate" YES!!
Im baisicaly that kid man i dont like addmiting it
One time, my grandma brought her friend camping with us and she brought her three grandkids. The oldest of the grandkids (around 12) was a pathological liar. She had an entire backstory for herself that you would only ever see in the movies. She wasn’t actually the child of her parents. Her parents adopted her to replace their dead child. (During this time there were shootings going on in Mexico) and she claimed to see her “Mexican parents” on the news. She was clearly overweight. And don’t get me wrong there is nothing bad about that, but she had told my grandma that her doctors told her she would have a difficult time climbing and doing physical activities because she was severely underweight for her age. Finally, she told us that these two drunk guys be tweed her tent while the rest of us were sitting around the fire (even though we watched the guys the entire time) and she claimed she hid under the AIR MATTRESS to get them to leave. Like the air mattress is just going to stay stiff and be at an angle now? She would go around telling the kids these lies too. Nobody wanted to hang out with her because of it so I felt a little bad.
I knew a kid in middle school who lied about working for Bungie on Halo 2 & 3.
He insisted it was so true. I called him out because I looked up the credits online and figured the name he used was one of the lead developers.
My now ex girlfriend said that when she was four, she went to the zoo and got into the lion and tiger exhibit (because yeah, they totally keep those two together) and instead of, yk, mauling her or something, they were completely chill with letting her pet them or something. As if that wouldn't have made national news 👀. Bad thing is, we were 15 at the time. She also steals stories off of Pinterest and pretends that they're hers lolol. We're 16 now, and she still does that.
bruh ur like my age
Had a friend who claimed to own a vacation house in Uraguay. She claimed that she went there every July, “to enjoy the summer”. Uraguay is in the Southern Hemisphere, down there it’s winter during July.
One girl told me she used to own fifteen Thoroughbred horses but had just sold them- including the tack, rugs, grooming kits, the lot. Don’t want to be horrible, but looking at her financial situation her mother (who was a single mum, but there’s no reason a single parent can’t be wealthy enough to buy horses), could not afford to buy one horse, never mind fifteen of them. Especially Thoroughbreds. They would have had to have had some serious debt to carry on living how they were if they had sold those horses, and they’d always been short of money. That was the first of a few tales. Thing is, she had no need to lie. We accepted her as she was
How could you leave me here so long with Uncle Walter? 🤣
He told us he knew how to do everything. I practiced violin, apparently he already knew how, I try to learn how to surf, apparently he's a professional. Constantly bragged about being good at everything but never proved it
Oh my God, that kid with the Mew-Three and the game dev relative is like a friggin' BINGO card of lies kids tell to look cool.
7:43 Not MewThree 😭😭 i swear kids are hilarious lol
When I was in third grade we were learning about Sweden and convinced myself and class that I was Swedish because the kids in the book had blonde hair and blue eyes like me. My lie was discovered when one of my classmates asked my older sister if we spoke Swedish. I was not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. 😱😅
In 7th grade, told me she had a 16-year-old boyfriend who was a model from the UK and was in a gang.
Also, she came from an “important” military family and had a crew of 125 men her parents hired to protect her. For some weird reason, we never saw any of these 125 men. 😆
I had a female friend (who I don’t talk to anymore) who made me believe that this guy liked me and told me about him, I fell in love with this guy until I found out that he not only did he NOT get out of a mental hospital but the guy DIDN’T even exist, she FUCKIN made him up in her head. I fell in love with an imaginary man that loved me.
I'm primary school no one in my friend group remembered it was april 1st, so an older boy came to where we were sitting and said "did you guys hear that *insert principals name* is leaving the school?". All of us were shocked accept one girl that said "yeah, I
already knew". Then the boy said April fools and everyone proceeded to laugh and she was so embarrassed.
TRIGGER WARNING: ABUSE
An old friend of mine spent an entire lunch period telling us how her grandparents (who raised her) started beating her when she got to high school. CPS got involved, and a state child psychologist (or psychiatrist, not sure which) evaluated her and determined that it was all just a ploy to get attention. Not nearly as bad, but the same friend once tried to trick a mutual friend into buying something for her by saying that she "didn't have any money with her," but proceeded to pay for it herself when the mutual friend forgot her PIN at the register. The same girl once asked another mutual friend to buy her ice cream when our classes went out together during school, and when the mutual friend said no, the girl moped in the corner until we left and dramatically refused to even take a bite of the friend's ice cream when she offered to share.
i used to be like that when i was younger, shitty, i know. but I'm glad no one actually minded. well, it wasn't on _this_ level anyway.
The teacher who falsely claimed to have served in Vietnam was really risking it. There are plenty of people in this country who would have been furious about the stolen valor and might have demanded his termination.