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[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

One of my parents has almost no emotional regulation and lying was a way to avoid being screamed at and generally failing people's expectations with unmedicated ADHD makes it easier to tell a small lie than "I've known I needed to do something for weeks and have thought about it every hour of every day but didn't do it until the last second, sorry."