And! As someone who used to have a EXTREMELY bad problem with pathological lying, I don’t want to see diddly squat about “but it could be mental health stufffffffff we don’t know why Avid did it!”
You know it’s wrong. The second a big lie leaves your mouth, it’s obvious that you shouldn’t have said that. The guilt starts eating at you immediately. And, if you TRULY are more than the compulsion to lie, you work hard to be honest. You apologize to the people around you for your actions. And the big difference between me and Avid here? I was around 8-12 when I became addicted to lying and got out of that cycle because it made me feel bad, and it made my loved ones feel bad. AVID, on the other hand, is a grown ass person who hasn’t learned that it’s not OK to spread lies like that. If I could find a way out at 12, he sure could have if they wanted to.
Maybe it is an addiction/mental health issue. But even so, their actions were so irreversibly harmful that he doesn’t deserve forgiveness no matter how you spin it. I understand how it feels. It’s a scary scary scary thing to have to deal with. But Avid had so many opportunities to come clean or try and back out of his lies or SOMETHING. Grown. ass. Person . I know this sucks to experience as an audience, but please don’t try and pin this behavior on a mental condition that we have no proof off as a way to deny it.
