11:45pm November 10, 2014

“The other offshoot is the inability to lie.   Once I create a lie that conflicts with what my brain already knows, it doesn’t seem to be able to hold the two memories at once.   It will either discard the lie so I can’t recall it later or worse, discard the truth in favor of the lie which inevitably conflicts with something else, setting off a chain reaction that can wipe out blocks of memory at a time.  Even white lies lead to trouble, so I’ve developed the fine art of splitting hairs.  By and large it works just as well, but on a day to day basis blunt truth has always been the default.   Humans say they admire a person who speaks the truth.  I think they’re lying.”

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