A lot of times they think it makes them clever or special or super charismatic. It’s dumb, ordinary, and gross.
It makes them dangerous in our society because they leech off of all the things we built to make life easy to live.
I was that person when I was younger, so I’m speaking from experience here. At the time I thought everyone played these social games and that I was just a much better player than everyone else.
It didn’t occur to me at all that I was just cheating at the game and nobody cared to call me out on it
…up until I pushed my ex too far and she became my ex.
…the average person has very limited experience in detecting lies or navigating conversations with liars, and abusers often seek out these kinds of people.
They always want to tilt the odds of winning even more in their favor.
–u/SignificantCats, excerpted and adapted from two comments